Sensitivity of precipitation to sea surface temperature over the tropical summer monsoon region-and its quantification

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 5-6, 2014, Pages 1159-1169

  Roxy, Mathew ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Asian monsoon; Climate change; Ocean atmosphere interaction; SST precipitation relationship

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; MONSOON; OCEANIC CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TIMESCALE; TROPICAL REGION;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 84906942212     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1881-y     Document Type: Article

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