Tibetan Plateau summer precipitation: Covariability with circulation indices

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 293-300

  Bothe, Oliver ^a   Fraedrich, Klaus ^a,b   Zhu, Xiuhua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DECADAL VARIATION; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TELECONNECTION; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84859099398     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0538-1     Document Type: Article

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