A global climatology of monsoon low-pressure systems

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 689, 2015, Pages 1049-1064

  Hurley, John V ^a   Boos, William R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Monsoon depression; Monsoon low pressure system; Vortex tracking

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY; WIND;

AUTOMATED ALGORITHMS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS; MONSOON DEPRESSIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; THIN NEAR-SURFACE LAYERS; VORTEX TRACKING;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; MONSOON; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SURFACE WIND; VORTEX FLOW; WIND VELOCITY;

AUSTRALIA; INDIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; WEST AFRICA;

PUPILLA SYNGENES;

EID: 84932176993     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2447     Document Type: Article

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