Roles of European blocking and tropical-extratropical interaction in the 2010 Pakistan flooding

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Hong, Chi Cherng ^a   Hsu, Huang Hsiung ^b   Lin, Nai Hsin ^b   Chiu, Hsun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAIPEI   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; MOISTURE;

ARABIAN SEA; DEATH TOLLS; EXTRATROPICAL; KEY FACTORS; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; MONSOON RAINFALL; PAKISTAN; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TROPICAL MONSOON; TROPICAL-EXTRATROPICAL INTERACTIONS;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; CAUSE OF DEATH; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; FLOODING; MOISTURE TRANSFER; MONSOON; NATURAL DISASTER; PENETRATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; RAINFALL; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROUGH;

EUROPE; INDIA; PAKISTAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

NIA;

EID: 79960233490     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047583     Document Type: Article

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