The role of diurnal solenoidal circulation on propagating rainfall episodes near the eastern Tibetan Plateau

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2975-2989

  Huang, Hsiao Ling ^a   Wang, Chung Chieh ^b   Chen, George Tai Jen ^a   Carbone, Richard E ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EAST ASIA; EASTERN EDGE; EASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU; IN-PHASE; MODULATING EFFECT; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SENSITIVITY TESTS; SICHUAN BASIN; THERMALLY DRIVEN; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; RAIN; SOLENOIDS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DIURNAL VARIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATEAU; RAINFALL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VORTEX FLOW; WESTERLY; WIND DIRECTION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77958482601     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3225.1     Document Type: Article

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