A possible cause for different diurnal variations of warm season rainfall as shown in station observations and TRMM 3B42 data over the southeastern Tibetan plateau

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 193-200

  Chen, Haoming ^a   Yuan, Weihua ^b,c   Li, Jian ^a,d   Yu, Rucong ^e  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d Dali National Climate Observatory   (China)

^e China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

diurnal cycle; station location; Tibetan Plateau; TRMM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255168841     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-011-0218-1     Document Type: Article

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