A mesoscale analysis of heavy rain caused by frontal and topographical heterogeneities on Taiwan Island

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 909-922

  Jing, Li ^a   Lu, Hancheng ^a   Wang, Hanjie ^b   Zhu, Min ^a   Kou, Zheng ^a  

^a PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Frontal heterogeneity; Heavy storm; MM5; Taiwan Island; Topographical circulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 10944253763     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02915593     Document Type: Article

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