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Relationship between 500 hPa ridge axis positions over the indian and the west Pacific regions and the Indian summer monsoon rainfall

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500 hPa ridge positions over the Indian and the West Pacific regions during April are related with the summer monsoon rainfall over India. The ridge position over the Indian region shows better relation with monsoon rainfall than that shown by the ridge over the Pacific region. The multiple correlation of these ridge positions with monsoon rainfall exceeds 0.7. These predictive relationships are better than those shown by other parameters, viz. (1) Northern Hemispheric surface temperature; (2) East-Pacific sea surface temperature; (3) El-Nino events and (4) Tahiti-Darwin pressure difference, and index of southern oscillation, over the 30-year samples analysed.

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  1. Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, 411 005, Pune, India

    S. V. Singh, S. R. Inamdar, R. H. Kripalani & K. D. Prasad

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Singh, S.V., Inamdar, S.R., Kripalani, R.H. et al. Relationship between 500 hPa ridge axis positions over the indian and the west Pacific regions and the Indian summer monsoon rainfall. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 3, 349–359 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02678655

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