Regional differences of daily rainfall characteristics in East Asian summer monsoon season

Geographical Review of Japan, Series B

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 193-201

  Matsumoto, Jun ^a   Takahashi, Kiyotoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Baiu; East Asia; Heavy rainfall; Meiyu; Summer monsoon

Indexed keywords

MONSOON; RAINFALL; REGIONAL PATTERN; SUMMER;

(EAST); ASIA;

EID: 0033496814     PISSN: 02896001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4157/grj1984b.72.193     Document Type: Article

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