Winter storms in the central Himalayas

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 829-844

  Lang, Timothy J ^a   Barros, Ana P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROMETEOROLOGY; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WINTER;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 4344577911     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2004.829     Document Type: Article

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