Transportation of water vapor into the Tibetan Plateau in the case of a passing synoptic-scale trough

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 935-949

  Sugimoto, Shiori ^a   Ueno, Kenichi ^a   Sha, Weiming ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; CONVERGENCE; MIXING; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR; WESTERLY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDIAN OCEAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 65749116199     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.86.935     Document Type: Article

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