Impacts of thermodynamic processes over the Tibetan Plateau on the Northern Hemispheric climate

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1679-1693

  Zhou, Xiuji ^a   Zhao, Ping ^b   Chen, Junming ^a   Chen, Longxun ^a   Li, Weiliang ^a  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b National Meteorological Information Centre   (China)

Author keywords

Asian monsoon; Northern Hemispheric climate; Ocean atmosphere interaction; Tibetan thermodynamic process

Indexed keywords

ASIAN MONSOON; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; CLIMATIC FEATURES; FORECASTING METHODS; GLOBAL CLIMATES; HADLEY CIRCULATION; HIGH PRESSURE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MIDLATITUDES; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RESEARCH RESULTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN INDIAN OCEAN; TELECONNECTIONS; THERMODYNAMIC ANOMALIES; THERMODYNAMIC FUNCTIONS; THERMODYNAMIC PROCESS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIBETANS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HADLEY CELL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PLATEAU; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; THERMODYNAMICS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

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

EID: 71949121418     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-009-0194-9     Document Type: Article

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