Research on the Mechanism and Prediction of Major Climatic Calamities in China a national key program for developing basic science (G199804090303); Science Foundation of Yunnan (97D022G)
The work is a general survey using SSTA data of the Indian Ocean and of precipitation at 160Chinese weather stations over 1951~1997 (47 years). It reveals that the dipole oscillation of SST, especially the dipole ind...