Drastic evening increase in precipitable water vapor over the southeastern Tibetan plateau

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1273-1281

  Sasaki, Taichi ^a   Wu, Peiming ^a   Kimura, Fujio ^a,b   Yoshikane, Takao ^a   Liu, Jingmiao ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DIURNAL VARIATION; FRONTAL FEATURE; WATER VAPOR;

QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 1642570443     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.81.1273     Document Type: Article

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