The rainfall phenomena during the pre-monsoon period over the Indochina Peninsula in the GAME-IOP year, 1998

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 89-106

  Kiguchi, Masashi ^a,b,c   Matsumoto, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Photon House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TROPOSPHERE; WESTERLY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

EID: 17744390778     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.83.89     Document Type: Article

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