Open AccessThe impact of varying seasonal lengths of the rainy seasons of India on its teleconnections with tropical sea surface temperatures
Author(s) -
Misra Vasubandhu,
Bhardwaj Amit
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
atmospheric science letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.951
H-Index - 45
ISSN - 1530-261X
DOI - 10.1002/asl.959
Subject(s) - teleconnection , climatology , environmental science , sea surface temperature , boreal , atmospheric sciences , oceanography , geography , geology , el niño southern oscillation , archaeology
We present in this paper the interannual variability of seasonal temperature and rainfall in the Indian meteorological subdivisions (IMS) for boreal winter and summer seasons that take in to account the varying length of the seasons. Our study reveals that accounting for the variations in the length of the seasons produces stronger teleconnections between the seasonal anomalies of surface temperature and rainfall over India with corresponding sea surface temperature anomalies of the tropical Oceans (especially over the northern Indian and the equatorial Pacific Oceans) compared to the same teleconnections from fixed length seasons over the IMS. It should be noted that the IMS show significant spatial heterogeneity in these teleconnections.