Roles of anomalous tibetan plateau warming on the severe 2008 winter storm in Central-Southern China

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2375-2384

  Bao, Qing ^a   Yang, Jing ^b   Liu, Yimin ^a   Wu, Guoxiong ^a   Wang, Bin ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Freezing precipitation; Mountain meteorology; Orographic effects; Severe storms; Snow

Indexed keywords

ASIA; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; CYCLONIC SHEAR; EXTREME EVENTS; FREEZING RAIN; INVERSION LAYER; JET STREAMS; MEAN SEA SURFACES; MIDDLE EAST; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; SEVERE STORMS; SOUTHEASTERN CHINA; SOUTHERN CHINA; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TIBETAN PLATEAU; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WINTER STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FREEZING; LANDFORMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RAIN; SNOW;

STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EXTREME EVENT; FREEZING; JET STREAM; MOISTURE TRANSFER; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEVERE WEATHER; SHEAR FLOW; SNOW; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIA; CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77955579801     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2950.1     Document Type: Article

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