Indications of stratospheric anomalies in the freezing rain and snow disaster in South China, 2008

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1248-1256

  Chen, Quan Liang ^a,b   Li, Zhan ^a   Fan, Guang Zhou ^a   Zhu, Ke Yun ^a   Zhang, Wen ^a   Zhu, Hong Qin ^a  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

Author keywords

air temperature; circulation anomaly; freezing rain and snow disasters; moisture; stratosphere

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ASIAN CONTINENT; CIRCULATION ANOMALY; FREEZING RAIN; FREEZING RAIN AND SNOW DISASTERS; LEADING INDICATORS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NCEP/NCAR; REANALYSIS; SNOW DISASTER; SNOW EVENT; SOUTH CHINA; STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DECREASE; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; WEATHER EVENTS;

ATMOSPHERICS; FREEZING; RAIN; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

SNOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; FREEZING; NATURAL DISASTER; POLAR VORTEX; RAINFALL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SNOW; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

CHINA;

EID: 79961203277     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-011-4192-3     Document Type: Article

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