Principal modes of climatological seasonal and intraseasonal variations of the Asian summer monsoon

From: Monthly Weather Review | Date: March 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

Principal modes of climatological variation of the Asian summer monsoon are investigated. Data used in this study include the high cloud fraction produced by the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project and sea level pressure, and 850- and 200-mb geopotential heights from ECMWF analysis for the five summers of 198589. It is shown that the seasonal volution of the Asian summer monsoon is adequately described by a few leading EOFs. These EOFs capture the variations of regional rainbands over the East Asian and Indian regions.

The first mode is characterized by an increase in ...

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