Impact of Indian Ocean warming on increasing trend in pre-monsoon rainfall and Hadley circulation over Bay of Bengal

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 137, Issue 3-4, 2019, Pages 2595-2606

  Choudhury, Devanil ^a,b   Nath, Debashis ^a   Chen, Wen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD COVER; HADLEY CELL; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING; WIND VELOCITY;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 85059689022     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-018-02751-2     Document Type: Article

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