Relative contributions of the Tibetan Plateau thermal forcing and the Indian Ocean Sea surface temperature basin mode to the interannual variability of the East Asian summer monsoon

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 9-10, 2015, Pages 2697-2711

  Hu, Jun ^a,b   Duan, Anmin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric thermal forcing; East Asian summer monsoon (EASM); Indian Ocean basin mode (IOBM); Summer rainfall; Tibetan Plateau (TP)

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

CHINA; FAR EAST; INDIAN OCEAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84946475887     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2503-7     Document Type: Article

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