The Relationship between the Aleutian Low and the Australian Summer Monsoon at Interannual Time Scales

The relationship between the boreal winter(December,January,February) Aleutian Low(AL) and the simultaneous Australian summer monsoon(ASM) is explored in this study.A significant correlation is found between the North Pacific index(NPI) and ASM index,the bulk of which is attributed to the significant correlation after late 1970s.Significant differences in precipitation and outgoing long-wave radiation between typical negative and positive NPI years appear over the ASM area.A regression analysis of the circu...