On the relationship between Tibetan snow cover, the Tibetan plateau monsoon and the Indian summer monsoon

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Zhao, Hongxu ^a   Moore, G W K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION METHODS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; LANDFORMS; RAIN;

INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL (IMR); TIBETAN PLATEAU;

SNOW;

CORRELATION; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SNOW COVER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER;

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

EID: 4644245008     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020040     Document Type: Article

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