Daily to submonthly weather and climate characteristics of the summer 1998 extreme rainfall over the Yangtze River Basin

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Liu, Hongbo ^a,b,c   Zhang, Da Lin ^b   Wang, Bin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; EXTREME EVENT; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE BASIN;

EID: 58849165284     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD010072     Document Type: Article

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