Three Gorges Dam affects regional precipitation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Wu, Liguang ^a,b   Zhang, Qiang ^c   Jiang, Zhihong ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMS; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SATELLITES; WATER LEVELS;

FIFTH-GENERATION MESOSCALE MODEL (MM5); MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); THREE GORGES DAM (TGD); TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM);

RAIN;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CLIMATE EFFECT; DAM; LAND SURFACE; LAND USE CHANGE; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; QINLING MOUNTAINS; THREE GORGES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845632329     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026780     Document Type: Article

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