Variation of the East Asian summer monsoon rainfall

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 744-762

  Chen, Tsing Chang ^a   Wang, Shih Yu ^a   Huang, Wan Ru ^a   Yen, Ming Cheng ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER (CPC); EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; MERGED ANALYSIS OF PRECIPETATION (CMAP); RAINBAND;

CLIMATOLOGY;

MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUMMER;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 1842481278     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<0744:VOTEAS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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