Analysis of the 2008 heavy snowfall over South China using GPS PWV measurements from the Tibetan Plateau

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1369-1376

  Xie, Y ^a   Wei, F ^b   Chen, G ^b   Zhang, T ^b   Hu, L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

Hydrology (Precipitation; Snow and ice; Transport)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; GAS TRANSPORT; GPS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SNOWSTORM; WATER VAPOR;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77954080015     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-28-1369-2010     Document Type: Article

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