Recent changes in the summer precipitation pattern in East China and the background circulation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1463-1473

  Zhu, Yali ^a,b   Wang, Huijun ^a,b   Zhou, Wen ^c   Ma, Jiehua ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; East China; Interdecadal variability; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; JET; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; WARMING; WATER VAPOR; WESTERLY;

CHINA; HUAI RIVER; LAKE BAIKAL; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); RUSSIAN FEDERATION; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 79953659265     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0852-9     Document Type: Article

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