Tropospheric biennial oscillation of summer monsoon rainfall over East Asia and its association with ENSO

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 7-8, 2015, Pages 1747-1759

  Liu, Yunyun ^a   Hu, Zeng Zhen ^b   Kumar, Arun ^b   Peng, Peitao ^b   Collins, Dan C ^b   Jha, Bhaskar ^b,c  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Innovim   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP); East Asia; ENSO; Summer monsoon rainfall; Tropospheric biennial oscillation (TBO)

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE;

CHINA; FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84943816758     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2429-5     Document Type: Article

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