Northern East Asian monsoon precipitation revealed by airmass variability and its prediction

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 6221-6233

  Seo, Kyong Hwam ^a   Son, Jun Hyeok ^a   Lee, June Yi ^a   Park, Hyo Seok ^b  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Monsoons

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELS; FORECASTING; LINEAR REGRESSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC OSCILLATIONS; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; MONSOONS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; STATISTICAL FORECASTING; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR MASS; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; EL NINO; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); FAR EAST; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84942903910     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00526.1     Document Type: Article

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