Convective cloud systems over the Tibetan Plateau and their impact on meso-scale disturbances in the Meiyu/Baiu frontal zone - A case study in 1998

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 783-803

  Yasunari, Tetsuzo ^a   Miwa, Takeshi ^a,b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD; CYCLOGENESIS; DIURNAL VARIATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SUMMER;

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

EID: 33750316975     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.84.783     Document Type: Article

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