Impacts of upper tropospheric cooling upon the late spring drought in East Asia simulated by a regional climate model

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 555-562

  Xin, Xiaoge ^a,b,d   Li, Zhaoxin ^c,d   Yu, Rucong ^e   Zhou, Tianjun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^d China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^e NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Inter decadal variability; Regional climate modeling; Southeast China; Spring drought

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349128564     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-008-0555-x     Document Type: Article

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