Sensitivity of the central Asian climate to uplift of the Tibetan Plateau in the coupled climate model (MRI-CGCM1)

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Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 378-388

  Abe, Manabu ^a   Yasunari, Tetsuzo ^a   Kitoh, Akio ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arid climate; Central Asia; General circulation model; Tibetan Plateau uplift

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LATENT HEAT FLUX; METEOROLOGY; PLATEAU; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; UPLIFT;

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

EID: 33845448992     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: 14401738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2005.00493.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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