Regimes of diurnal variation of summer rainfall over subtropical East Asia

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3307-3320

  Yuan, Weihua ^a   Yu, Rucong ^b   Zhang, Minghua ^c   Lin, Wuyin ^d   Chen, Haoming ^e   Li, Jian ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Asia; Diurnal effects

Indexed keywords

ASIA; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; DIURNAL EFFECTS; DIURNAL VARIATION; DOUBLE PEAK; EAST ASIA; EAST CHINA SEA; EASTERN CHINA; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PHYSICAL PARAMETERIZATION; RAIN GAUGES; SATELLITE DATA; SUMMER RAINFALL; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; UNDERLYING SURFACE; WESTERN CHINA;

GAGES; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; TROPICS;

LANDFORMS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DIURNAL VARIATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE DATA; SUMMER;

CHINA; EAST CHINA SEA; FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84862075997     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00288.1     Document Type: Article

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