Climatological description of seasonal variations in lower-tropospheric temperature inversion layers over the Indochina Peninsula

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 3307-3319

  Nodzu, Masato I ^a   Ogino, Shin Ya ^b   Tachibana, Yoshihiro ^b,c   Yamanaka, Manabu D ^a,b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; COASTAL ZONES; TROPOSPHERE;

SEASONAL VARIATIONS; STATIC STABILITY; TEMPERATURE INVERSION LAYERS; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAY PENINSULA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 33746813020     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3792.1     Document Type: Article

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