Impact of Tibetan orography and heating on the summer flow over Asia

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 85 B, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-19

  Liu, Yimin ^a,b   Hoskins, Brian J ^b   Blackburn, Michael ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; ANTICYCLONE; HEATING; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE;

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

EID: 34848928439     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.85B.1     Document Type: Article

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