Thermal controls on the asian summer monsoon

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wu, Guoxiong ^a   Liu, Yimin ^a   He, Bian ^a,b   Bao, Qing ^a   Duan, Anmin ^a   Jin, Fei Fei ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; SEA; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW; WIND;

ASIA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; RAIN; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; WATER MOVEMENTS; WIND;

EID: 84861157397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00404     Document Type: Article

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