An assessment of summer sensible heat flux on the Tibetan Plateau from eight data sets

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 779-786

  Zhu, Xia Ying ^a,b   Liu, Yi Min ^a   Wu, Guo Xiong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

interannual variation; linear trend; sensible heat flux assessment; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE DYNAMICS; CLIMATE FORECASTS; DATA SETS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LINEAR TREND; MODEL DATA; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL DISPARITIES; SENSIBLE HEAT; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE WIND SPEED; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY;

HEAT FLUX;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOSPHERE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SUMMER; TREND ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84860698725     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-012-4379-2     Document Type: Article

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