Orographic effects on South China Sea summer climate

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 100, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 275-289

  Xu, Haiming ^a   Xie, S P ^b   Wang, Y ^b   Zhuang, W ^c   Wang, D ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; GYRE; JET FLOW; MONSOON; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUMMER; WIND FORCING;

ANNAM HIGHLANDS; ASIA; EURASIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 50649094913     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-008-0309-4     Document Type: Article

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