Intraseasonal Variability of Summer Monsoon Rainfall and Droughts over Central India

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1827-1844

  Shrivastava, Sourabh ^a,b   Kar, Sarat C ^a   Sharma, Anu Rani ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTING   (India)

^b TERI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Central India; drought; interannual; intraseasonal; MJO; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MOISTURE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ANTICYCLONIC CIRCULATION; CENTRAL INDIA; INTERANNUAL; INTRA-SEASONAL; INTRA-SEASONAL VARIABILITIES; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL;

RAIN;

DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SUMMER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

INDIA; MADHYA PRADESH;

EID: 85016615115     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-017-1498-x     Document Type: Article

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