Tibetan Plateau forcing and the timing of the monsoon onset over South Asia and the South China Sea

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 913-927

  Wu, Guoxiong ^a,b   Zhang, Yongsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATENT HEAT FLUX; MONSOON; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; THERMAL REGIME;

ASIA, (SOUTH); SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 0031671498     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<0913:TPFATT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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