Vegetation and topographic control of cloud activity over arid/semiarid Asia

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 24, 2007, Pages

  Sato, Tomonori ^a   Kimura, Fujio ^b   Hasegawa, Akira S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c NTT DATA Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; HEAT FLUX; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION; WIND EFFECTS;

AFFORESTATION; ARID REGION; CLOUD; CUMULUS; HEAT FLUX; MOUNTAIN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEMIARID REGION; SLOPE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VEGETATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 41549142290     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD008129     Document Type: Article

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