Snowfall over central-eastern China and Asian atmospheric cold source in January

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 888-899

  Nan, Sulan ^a   Zhao, Ping ^a,b  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b National Meteorological Information Centre   (China)

Author keywords

Asian atmospheric cold source; East asian winter monsoon; Snowstorm over central eastern china

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ASIAN ATMOSPHERIC COLD SOURCE; ASIAN CONTINENT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH; BAY OF BENGAL; DATA SETS; EAST ASIA; EAST ASIAN WINTER MONSOON; HEAVY SNOWFALL; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MID-LOW LATITUDE; REANALYSIS; SNOWSTORM OVER CENTRAL-EASTERN CHINA; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SURFACE STATION; THERMAL CONDITION; UPWARD MOTION; WATER VAPOUR; WIND ANOMALIES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATIC REGION; EXTREME EVENT; MONSOON; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOWSTORM;

CHINA;

EID: 84055191218     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2318     Document Type: Article

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