The relationship between June precipitation over mid-lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin and spring soil moisture over the East Asian monsoon region

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 355-363

  Zhan, Yanlingy ^a   Lin, Zhaohui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

East Asian summer monsoon; Land sea temperature contrast; Spring soil moisture; Summer rainfall anomaly over the Yangtze River basin

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR; WIND;

CHINA; YANGTZE BASIN;

EID: 79960160196     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13351-011-0310-6     Document Type: Article

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