Atmospheric water vapor flux and its association with rainfall over China in summer

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 5 II, 1999, Pages 1353-1367

  Simmonds, Ian ^a   Bi, Daohua ^b,c   Hope, Pandora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR FLUX; CHINA; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; SUMMER;

MOISTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; MOISTURE TRANSFER; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SUMMER; WATER VAPOR;

CHINA;

EID: 0032851936     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<1353:awvfai>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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