Characteristics of subtropical monsoon and rainfall over eastern china and western North Pacific

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 649-665

  Zhao, Ping ^a,b   Zhao, Xiuji ^b   Chen, Longxun ^b   He, Jinha ^c  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Eastern china; Precipitation; Southwest monsoon; Water vapor; Western pacific

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONVERGENCE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

BAY OF BENGAL; CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 79954499658     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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