Current progresses in study of impacts of the Tibetan Plateau on Asian summer climate

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 144-158

  Wu, Guoxiong ^a   Mao, Jiangyu ^a   Duan, Anmin ^a   Zhang, Qiong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Asian monsoon onset; Bimodality of the South Asian high; Climate pattern over East Asia; The Tibetan Plateau heating; Westerly easterly boundary (WEB)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE FORCING; DROUGHT; MONSOON; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL PATTERN; SUMMER;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 33748437944     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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