South China Sea summer monsoon onset in relation to the off-equatorial ITCZ

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 665-676

  Zhou, Wen ^a,b   Chan, Johnny Chung Leung ^b   Li, Chongyin ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Land sea thermal contrast; Off equatorial ITCZ; SCSSM onset

Indexed keywords

EID: 26644472165     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02918710     Document Type: Article

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