Relationship between middle stratiform clouds and large scale circulation over eastern China

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Li, Yunying ^a,b   Gu, Hong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MOISTURE; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; TROPOSPHERE;

ASCENDING MOTIONS; LOW ATMOSPHERE; STRATIFORM CLOUDS;

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CONVERGENCE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; STRATIFORM CLOUD; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33745699432     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025615     Document Type: Article

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