Extratropical anticyclonic Rossby wave breaking and Indian summer monsoon failure

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue 5-6, 2016, Pages 1547-1562

  Samanta, Dhrubajyoti ^a   Dash, M K ^a   Goswami, B N ^b   Pandey, P C ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BHUBANESWAR   (India)

Author keywords

Blocking; Indian summer monsoon; Monsoonal convection; Rossby wave breaking

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; MONSOON; ROSSBY WAVE; SUMMER; VORTICITY; WAVE BREAKING; WESTERLY;

INDIA; WEST ASIA;

EID: 84959104411     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2661-7     Document Type: Article

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