Temperature distribution in the high mountain regions on the Tibetan Plateau - Measurement and simulation

MODSIM07 - Land, Water and Environmental Management: Integrated Systems for Sustainability, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2146-2152

  Du, M ^a   Kawashima, S ^a   Yonemura, S ^a   Yamada, T ^b   Zhang, X ^c   Liu, J ^c   Li, Y ^d   Gu, S ^d   Tang, Y ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Yamada Science and Art Corporation   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Meteorological characteristics; Mountain; Temperature inversion; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATED CONTROL; INVERSION LAYERS; LANDFORMS; OBSERVATORIES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION;

ECOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS; LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION; MEAN AIR TEMPERATURES; MEASUREMENT AND SIMULATION; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORIES; TEMPERATURE INVERSION LAYERS; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79960133810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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