The rainfall characteristics of Taiwan

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1323-1341

  Chen, Ching Sen ^a   Chen, Yi Leng ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; STORMS; WIND;

ISLANDS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; WIND DIRECTION;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0043095504     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<1323:TRCOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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