Climatic Features Related to Eastern China Summer Rainfalls in the NCAR CCM3

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages

  Yu, Rucong ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Zhang, Xuehong ^a   Liu, Yimin ^a   Yu, Yongqiang ^a   Liu, Hailong ^a   Zhou, Tianjun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Diabatic heating; Eastern China summer rainfall; Model validation; Subtropical anticyclone

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009807509     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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