Regional features of precipitation over Asia and summer extreme precipitation over Southeast Asia and their associations with atmospheric-oceanic conditions

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 57-73

  Yao, Cai ^a   Qian, Weihong ^a   Yang, Song ^b   Lin, Zhengmin ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Guangxi Meteorological Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTUMN; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER; WINTER;

CHINA; INDONESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 77949273306     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-009-0052-5     Document Type: Article

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