Contrasts of atmospheric circulation and associated tropical convection between Huaihe River valley and Yangtze River valley mei-yu flooding

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 755-768

  Hong, Jieli ^a,b   Liu, Yimin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Huaihe River; mei yu flooding; tropical convection heating anomaly; Yangtze River

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862695111     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-1217-6     Document Type: Article

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