A regional model simulation of the 1991 severe precipitation event over the Yangtze-Huai River valley. Part I: Precipitation and circulation statistics

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 74-92

  Wang, Wei Chyung ^a   Gong, Wei ^a   Wei, Helin ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL INTENSITY;

CHINA;

EID: 0034030643     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<0074:ARMSOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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