A simulation study of a heavy rainfall process over the Yangtze River valley using the two-way nesting approach

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 731-743

  Wang, Shuzhou ^a,c   Yu, Entao ^a,b   Wang, Huijun ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

heavy rainfall; shear line; WRF; Yangtze River valley

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862651742     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-1176-y     Document Type: Article

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