Monsoon-extratropical circulation interactions in Himalayan extreme rainfall

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue 11-12, 2016, Pages 3517-3546

  Vellore, Ramesh K ^a   Kaplan, Michael L ^b   Krishnan, R ^a   Lewis, John M ^b,c   Sabade, Sudhir ^a   Deshpande, Nayana ^a   Singh, Bhupendra B ^a   Madhura, R K ^a   Rama Rao, M V S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageostrophic transverse circulations; Extreme precipitation events; Indian summer monsoon; Midlatitude interactions

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; ROSSBY WAVE; SUMMER; WAVE BREAKING;

BAY OF BENGAL; HIMALAYAS; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84939188528     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2784-x     Document Type: Article

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