Comments on "Choice of South Asian Summer Monsoon Indices"

Goswami, BN (2000) Comments on "Choice of South Asian Summer Monsoon Indices". In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 81 (4). pp. 821-822.

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Abstract

The choice of an appropriate index for the south Asian summer monsoon has been a subject of some controversy and received considerable attention in recent years (Webster and Yang; Goswami et al. 1999). Two major indices are the zonal wind shear index proposed by Webster and Yang (1992, hereafter referred to WYI) and the meridional shear index defined by Goswami et al. (1999, hereafter referred to as GKA; the index is hereafter referred to as MHI). In their recent article in the Bulletin, Wang and Fan (1999, hereafter referred to as WF) attempt to provide a dynamical basis for the discrepancies between different indices.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Publisher:	American Meteorological Society
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to American Meteorological Society.
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Centre for Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
Date Deposited:	03 Jan 2005
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:15
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/1726

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