Diurnal variations of warm-season precipitation east of the Tibetan Plateau over China

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2790-2810

  Bao, Xinghua ^a,b   Zhang, Fuqing ^b   Sun, Jianhua ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Diurnal effects; Microscale processes variability; Orographic effects; Rainfall; Summer warm season; Valley mountain flows

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL EFFECTS; MICRO-SCALES; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; SUMMER/WARM SEASON; VALLEY/MOUNTAIN FLOWS;

RAIN;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NOAA SATELLITE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUMMER; WESTERLY;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL); QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

CITRUS MAXIMA; SOLENOIDEA;

EID: 80053184626     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00006.1     Document Type: Article

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