Differential heating in the Indian ocean differentially modulates precipitation in the ganges and Brahmaputra basins

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Pervez, Md Shahriar ^a   Henebry, Geoffrey M ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brahmaputra precipitation; El Ni o; Empirical orthogonal function; Ganges precipitation; Geopotential height; Indian monsoon; Indian Ocean dipole; La Ni a; Outgoing longwave radiation; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; FOOD SUPPLY; LAND USE; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; REMOTE SENSING; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

BRAHMAPUTRA; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; INDIAN MONSOON; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLE; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84995520707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8110901     Document Type: Article

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