Role of narrow mountains in large-scale organization of Asian Monsoon convection

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3420-3429

  Xie, Shang Ping ^a,b   Xu, Haiming ^a,c   Saji, N H ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^a,b   Liu, W Timothy ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; LANDFORMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND;

COASTAL MOUNTAINS; GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES; MONSOON CONVECTION; SUMMER MONSOON;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONSOON; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ASIA; BAY OF BENGAL; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; MYANMAR; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 33745071414     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3777.1     Document Type: Article

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