Precipitation climate of Central Asia and the large-scale atmospheric circulation

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 345-354

  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

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATOLOGY; MOISTURE FLUX; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WESTERLY;

CHINA; KAZAKHSTAN; KYRGYZSTAN; TARIM BASIN; TIEN SHAN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84860489621     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0537-2     Document Type: Article

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