Diurnal variations of summer precipitation over contiguous China

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Yu, Rucong ^a   Zhou, Tianjun ^b   Xiong, Anyuan ^c   Zhu, Yanjun ^c   Li, Jiming ^c  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINA; CLIMATOLOGY; RAIN GAGES;

DIURNAL VARIATIONS; SUMMER PRECIPITATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

DIURNAL VARIATION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINGAUGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER;

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

EID: 34548032341     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028129     Document Type: Article

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