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Upper vertical thermal contrast over the western Tibetan Plateau and its impact on convection over the Mediterranean region during ENSO events
Previous studies have shown that the vertical variations of upper-tropospheric temperature over the Mediterranean region significantly influence the convection over the western Tibetan Plateau (WTP) via modula...
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Monsoon 2020: An Interaction of Upper Tropospheric Thermodynamics and Dynamics Over the Tibetan Plateau and the Western Pacific
Having witnessed one of the most dramatic monsoons on record, the year 2020 established a record as the third highest, after 112% of the long period average (LPA) in 1994 and 110% of LPA in 2019. An analysis o...
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Strikingly contrasting Indian monsoon progressions during 2013 and 2014: role of Western Tibetan Plateau and the South China Sea
This study presents some new perspectives on the progression of the Indian summer monsoon (June through September) during two contrasting summer seasons of 2013 and 2014. Monsoon 2013 witnessed above normal ra...
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Open AccessThe role of natural factors (part 2): Indian summer monsoon in climate change period—observation and CMIP5 models
This study discusses the role of natural factors and related teleconnections for Indian summer monsoon (ISM) with a special emphasis on later two decades of the last century. The combined influence of the sun ...
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Variability of Indian summer monsoon droughts in CMIP5 climate models
Variability of Indian summer monsoon droughts is investigated by computing all-India drought indices namely Percent of Normal Precipitation, Standardized Precipitation Index and percentage area of India under ...
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Open AccessThe role of natural factors (part 1): addressing on mechanism of different types of ENSO, related teleconnections and solar influence
The role of natural factors, mainly the sun, is explored on major tropospheric modes of variability in a holistic way. It formulates a flow chart, depicting coupling in the ocean-atmosphere system, initiated b...
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New spatial and temporal indices of Indian summer monsoon rainfall
The overall yearly seasonal performance of Indian southwest monsoon rainfall (ISMR) for the whole Indian land mass is presently expressed by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) by a single number, the to...
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Open AccessEvaluation of precipitation extremes over the Asian domain: observation and modelling studies
In this study, a comparison in the precipitation extremes as exhibited by the seven reference datasets is made to ascertain whether the inferences based on these datasets agree or they differ. These seven data...
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The Asymmetric Influence of the South China Sea Biweekly SST on the Abnormal Indian Monsoon Rainfall of 2002
An examination of the contrasting behaviour of the Indian summer monsoon during peak monsoon months of July and August 2002 in relation to the South China Sea (SCS) SST variations on intra-seasonal time scale ...
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Open AccessLinkages between the South and East Asian summer monsoons: a review and revisit
The relationship between the South Asia monsoon (SAM) and the East Asia monsoon (EAM) possibly modulated by both external forcings and internal dynamics has been a long-standing and controversial issue in clim...
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SMMR-SSM/I derived Greenland Sea ice variability: links with Indian and Korean Monsoons
Greenland Sea ice area (GRESIA) in boreal autumn and its association with the subsequent summer monsoon rainfall over India and South Korea is assessed for the period 1983–2013. It is found that GRESIA in the ...
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Open AccessSummer monsoon rainfall variability over North East regions of India and its association with Eurasian snow, Atlantic Sea Surface temperature and Arctic Oscillation
This observational study during the 29-year period from 1979 to 2007 evaluates the potential role of Eurasian snow in modulating the North East-Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall with a lead time of almost 6 month...
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Recent trends and tele-connections among South and East Asian summer monsoons in a warming environment
Recent trends, variations and tele-connections between the two large regional sub-systems over the Asian domain, the South Asian and the East Asian monsoons are explored using data for the 1901–2014 period. Ba...
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Potential role of the February–March Southern Annular Mode on the Indian summer monsoon rainfall: a new perspective
Relationship between the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) and the India summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) has been examined based on the data period 1949–2013. While the entire data period indicates a significant incr...
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Trends and projections of temperature, precipitation, and snow cover during snow cover-observed period over southwestern Iran
In the present study, tendencies in temperature, precipitation, and snow cover area over the southwestern part of Iran have been assessed. The research mainly focused on snow cover-observed period which includ...
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Precipitation analysis over southwest Iran: trends and projections
Analysis of trends and projection of precipitation are of significance for the future development and management of water resource in southwest Iran. This research has been divided into two parts. The first pa...
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Temperature analysis over southwest Iran: trends and projections
The present study intends to show the effect of climate change on trends and patterns of temperature over the southwestern part of Iran. The research has been divided into two parts. The first part consists of...
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Trend analysis and change point detection of annual and seasonal precipitation and temperature series over southwest Iran
This paper presents results of trend analysis and change point detection of annual and seasonal precipitation, and mean temperature (TM), maximum temperature (TMAX) and minimum temperature (TMIN) time series o...
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Anomalous behaviour of the Indian summer monsoon 2009
The Indian subcontinent witnessed a severe monsoon drought in the year 2009. India as a whole received 77% of its long period average during summer monsoon season (1 June to 30 September) of 2009, which is the...
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Erratum to: Projected changes in South Asian summer monsoon by multi-model global warming experiments