Seminars and Colloquia
Earth and Climate Science
Oscillations of the Indian monsoon - looking for explanations
Wed, Feb 21, 2018,
02:30 PM to 03:30 PM
at ECS Seminar room 32, Second Floor, Main Building
Svante Henriksson
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
It is difficult to find climate indices explaining year-to-year variability of Indian monsoon rainfall. The best result known is the modest -35% correlation with El Niño. Higher explanatory power can be reached by nonlinear relationships between sea surface temperatures and monsoon rainfall. In this ongoing work, we are looking for such relationships that would hold over time, into the future.
