Diurnal variation in summer precipitation over the central Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Singh, Prasamsa ^a,b   Nakamura, Kenji ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center Nagoya University ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; LAKES; LANDFORMS;

CENTRAL TIBETAN PLATEAU; CONDITIONAL RAIN; DIURNAL CYCLE; DIURNAL VARIATION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LARGE LAKES; MORNING RAINFALL; PRECIPITATION CHARACTERISTICS; PREVAILING WINDS; RAIN RATES; SEMI-ARID REGION; SUMMER MONSOON; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION PRECIPITATION RADARS;

RAIN;

DIURNAL VARIATION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUMMER;

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

EID: 72049093973     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD011788     Document Type: Article

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