scholarly journals The Australian monsoon Part-I : Climatological features and the Asian connection

MAUSAM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-154
Author(s):  
KSHUDIRAM SARA ◽  
SURANJANA SARA

Climatological fields of several meteorological variables associated with the Australian summer monsoon, as revealed by NCEP/NCAR reanalysis, are reviewed in the context of observed weather and climate over the continent and surrounding regions. Inter-hemispheric distributions of pressure, temperature and circulation features suggest a see-saw relationship of the Australian monsoon with the monsoons of Asia during both summer and winter. Computed values of cross-equatorial fluxes of air appear to lend credence to this hypothesis.

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deniz Eroglu ◽  
Fiona H. McRobie ◽  
Ibrahim Ozken ◽  
Thomas Stemler ◽  
Karl-Heinz Wyrwoll ◽  
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2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 1929-1933 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.-Y. Yu ◽  
M. A. Janiga

Abstract. This study examines the decadal changes in the in-phase relationship between Indian summer monsoon and the subsequent Australian summer monsoon using observational data from 1950–2005. The in-phase relationship is the tendency for a strong Indian summer monsoon to be followed by a strong Australian summer monsoon and vice versa. It is found that the in-phase relationship was weak during the late 1950s and early 1960s, strengthened to a maximum in the early 1970s just before the 1976/77 Pacific climate shift, then declined until the late 1990s. Pacific SST anomalies are noticed to have strong persistence from boreal to austral summer, providing the memory to connect the Indian and subsequent Australian summer monsoon. The simultaneous correlation between the Pacific SST anomalies and the Indian summer monsoon is always strong. It is the weakening and strengthening of the simultaneous correlation between the Australian summer monsoon and the Pacific SST anomalies that contributes to the decadal variations of the in-phase monsoon relation. This study suggests that the interaction between the Australian monsoon and the Pacific Ocean is crucial to tropical climate variability and has experienced significant changes over the past five decades.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gallego ◽  
Ricardo García-Herrera ◽  
Cristina Peña-Ortiz ◽  
Pedro Ribera

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