Modulation of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on the summer precipitation over East China: a comparison of observations to 600-years control run of Bergen Climate Model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 475-494

  Yu, Lei ^a,d   Furevik, Tore ^a,e   Otterå, Odd Helge ^b,e   Gao, Yongqi ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Uni Research   (Norway)

^c NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^e BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Pacific Decadal Oscillation; Sea surface temperature anomalies; Summer precipitation pattern; Western Pacific subtropical high

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939875163     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2141-5     Document Type: Article

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