Relation between rainfall duration and diurnal variation in the warm season precipitation over central eastern China

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 13, 2007, Pages

  Yu, Rucong ^a   Xu, Youping ^b,c   Zhou, Tianjun ^b   Li, Jian ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN GAGES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DIURNAL VARIATION; RAINFALL DURATION; WARM SEASON PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

DIURNAL VARIATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 34548618712     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030315     Document Type: Article

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