Diurnal phase of late-night against late-afternoon of stratiform and convective precipitation in summer southern contiguous China

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 567-576

  Yu, Rucong ^a,b   Yuan, Weihua ^a,c   Li, Jian ^b   Fu, Yunfei ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Convective precipitation; Diurnal cycle; Rainfall duration; Stratiform precipitation

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DIURNAL VARIATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; STRATIFORM CLOUD; SUMMER;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77956095594     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0568-x     Document Type: Article

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