Diurnal circulations and their multi-scale interaction leading to rainfall over the South China Sea upstream of the Philippines during intraseasonal monsoon westerly wind bursts

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 1483-1499

  Park, Myung Sook ^b   Ho, Chang Hoi ^a   Kim, Jinwon ^c   Elsberry, Russell L ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diurnal rainfall; Intra seasonal rainfall variability; South China Sea; Westerly wind bursts

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; WESTERLY; ZENITH ANGLE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINES; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 80053305665     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0922-z     Document Type: Article

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