Differential impacts of conventional El Niño versus El Niño Modoki on Malaysian rainfall anomaly during winter monsoon

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2763-2774

  Salimun, Ester ^a   Tangang, Fredolin ^a   Juneng, Liew ^a   Behera, Swadhin K ^b   Yu, Weidong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Anomalous rainfall; Conventional El Ni o; El Ni o Modoki; Northern Borneo; Peninsular Malaysia

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

MALAYSIA; MALAYSIAN RAINFALL; NORTHERN BORNEO; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; REGIONAL CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; WALKER CIRCULATION; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

RAIN;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTICYCLONE; EL NINO; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WINTER;

BORNEO; MALAYSIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84902658860     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3873     Document Type: Article

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