The North China/Northeastern Asia severe summer drought in 2014

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 6667-6681

  Wang, Huijun ^a,b,c   He, Shengping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Drought; Monsoons; Precipitation; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); ROADS AND STREETS; SEA ICE; SILK; SURFACE WATERS;

EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; MONSOONS; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SUMMER DROUGHTS; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DROUGHT; ICE COVER; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEVERE WEATHER; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CHINA; JAPAN; KARA SEA; LAPTEV SEA; NORTHEAST ASIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 84945910764     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0202.1     Document Type: Article

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