Relationship between western North Pacific typhoon activity and Tibetan Plateau winter and spring snow cover

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Xie, Lian ^a   Yan, Tingzhuang ^a   Pietrafesa, Leonard J ^a   Karl, Thomas ^b   Xu, Xiangde ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; SNOW; STORMS; THERMODYNAMICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SNOW COVER; TYPHOON ACTIVITY; TYPHOON FREQUENCY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CORRELATION; PLATEAU; SNOW COVER; TYPHOON;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; WORLD;

EID: 26844436394     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023237     Document Type: Article

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