A revisit of the tropical-midlatitude interaction in East Asia caused by cold surges

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1115-1128

  Yen, Ming Chen ^a   Chen, Tsing Chang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; COLD FRONT; MONSOON;

ASIA;

EID: 0036822425     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.80.1115     Document Type: Article

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