Extreme drought event of 2009/2010 over southwestern China

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 173-184

  Yang, Jing ^a   Gong, Daoyi ^a   Wang, Wenshan ^a   Hu, Miao ^a   Mao, Rui ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CYCLONE; DROUGHT; MOISTURE TRANSFER; RAINFALL; TROPOSPHERE;

CHINA;

EID: 84856493853     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-011-0172-6     Document Type: Article

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