Biweekly and 21-30-day variations of the subtropical summer monsoon rainfall over the lower reach of the Yangtze river basin

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1146-1159

  Yang, Jing ^a   Wang, Bin ^b,c   Bao, Qing ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONIC ANOMALIES; BAROCLINIC; DAILY RAINFALL; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INTRASEASONAL VARIATIONS; JET STREAMS; LAKE BAIKAL; MIDLATITUDES; SOURCE REGION; SPECTRAL PEAK; SUMMER MONSOON; SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL; UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC; YANGTZE RIVER BASIN;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; RAIN; WATERSHEDS;

TROPICS;

ANTICYCLONE; JET STREAM; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; VORTICITY;

CHINA; LAKE BAIKAL; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TAIWAN; YANGTZE BASIN;

CITRUS MAXIMA;

EID: 77953674235     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3005.1     Document Type: Article

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