East Asian, Indochina and Western North Pacific Summer Monsoon - An update

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Abstract

This review provides a summary of the major research progress in the variability of East Asian, Indochina and Western North Pacific Summer Monsoon. Time scales of the reviewed phenomena range from diurnal to interannual and interdecadal. Research results published in the past decades are the major sources for this review.

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    Tianjun Zhou

  3. Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Japan

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Hsu, HH., Zhou, T. & Matsumoto, J. East Asian, Indochina and Western North Pacific Summer Monsoon - An update. Asia-Pacific J Atmos Sci 50, 45–68 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13143-014-0027-4

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  • Summer monsoon
  • East Asia
  • Indochina
  • Western North Pacific