The recent interdecadal and interannual variation of water vapor transport over eastern China

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1039-1048

  Sun, Bo ^a,b,c,d   Zhu, Yali ^a,d   Wang, Huijun ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

interdecadal variability; midlatitude westerlies; summer monsoon; water vapor transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051879979     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-010-0093-1     Document Type: Article

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