Abstract: Water vapor transport over the Indian Ocean during the 1979 summer monsoon is studied. The analysis is based on wind fields from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts and humidity fields derived from a ...

Abstract: In this second part of the paper, moisture budgets over the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal are investigated for the 1979 summer monsoon season. Over the Arabian Sea the different terms of the moisture balance equation, ...

Abstract: The physical characteristics of the southwest branch of the North American monsoon system during the summer of 1979 are studied with the FGGE dataset. The combined features such as the low pressure trough over northwestern ...

Abstract: Some meteorological features have been examined as part of a more extensive study on general circulation in the eastern Pacific and Central American region. The analysis is based on twice-daily data from May to August 1979. ...

Abstract: The interannual variability of surface meteorological fields over the Indian Ocean during the period 1954?76 is studied using 2 million ship reports obtained from different sources. Monthly mean fields of wind, pressure, ...