Outline

1. Introduction: correlations ENSO/AIR, a brief background: moisture's role

2. A review of the seasonal mean: water vapor transports, and P-E during JJAS

3. Science Questions: click here

4. Methodology: click here

5. Assessing 1987-1988: moisture transports, P-E, precipitable water (PW), and SST

6. Assessing strong and weak monsoon years 1958-1998: moisture transports, P-E, PW and SST

7. Conclusions: click here [back to home][introduction][seasonal mean][questions][method][1987-1988][1958-1998][conclusions] [to next page (Niño 3-AI Correlations)] this talk can be found at  http://paos.colorado.edu/~fasullo/research/ams.00.b/