Diurnal variability of precipitation depth over the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding regions

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 115-122

  Hu, Liang ^a,b   Yang, Song ^c   Li, Yaodong ^a,d   Gao, Shouting ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^d Beijing Aviation Meteorological Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Convective rain; Diurnal variability; Precipitation depth; Stratiform rain; Total rain

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949671671     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-8193-5     Document Type: Article

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