Responses of China's summer monsoon climate to snow anomaly over the Tibetan Plateau

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 593-613

  Qian, Y F ^a   Zheng, Y Q ^a   Zhang, Y ^a   Miao, M Q ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asian summer monsoon; Mechanism analysis; Numerical simulations; Singular value decomposition (SVD); Snow anomaly; Spring and summer precipitation in China

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOISTURE; RAIN; SNOW; SOILS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CLIMATIC EFFECTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOW COVER;

CHINA;

EID: 0038383009     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.901     Document Type: Article

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