Rainy season at Beijing and Shanghai since 1736

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 827-834

  Wang, Wei Chyung ^a   Ge, Quansheng ^b   Hao, Zhixin ^a,b   Zheng, Jingyun ^b   Zhang, Peiyuan ^b   Sung, Simona ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c The College of Saint Rose   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATIC REGION; DECADAL VARIATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEASONALITY;

ASIA; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHANGHAI;

EID: 58049092200     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.86.827     Document Type: Article

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