Weakening sensible heat source over the Tibetan Plateau revisited: Effects of the land-atmosphere thermal coupling

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-12

  Guo, Xiaofeng ^a   Yang, Kun ^a   Chen, Yingying ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MONSOON; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; WINTER;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79955068440     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-010-0328-1     Document Type: Article

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