An overview of dry-wet climate variability among monsoon-westerly regions and the monsoon northernmost marginal active zone in China

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 630-641

  Qian, Weihong ^a   Ding, Ting ^a   Hu, Haoran ^a   Lin, Xiang ^a   Qin, Aimin ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Dry wet climate variability; Monsoon active zone; Monsoon region; Westerly region

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849107931     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-8213-5     Document Type: Article

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