North Indian heavy rainfall event during June 2013: diagnostics and extended range prediction

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 7-8, 2015, Pages 2049-2065

  Joseph, Susmitha ^a   Sahai, A K ^a   Sharmila, S ^a   Abhilash, S ^a   Borah, N ^a   Chattopadhyay, R ^a   Pillai, P A ^a   Rajeevan, M ^b   Kumar, Arun ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES   (India)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate forecast system model; Ensemble prediction system; Extreme events; Indian summer monsoon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939895727     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2291-5     Document Type: Article

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