Synoptic conditions associated with propagating and nonpropagating cloud/rainfall episodes during the warm season over the East Asian continent

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 721-747

  Wang, Chung Chieh ^a   Chen, George Tai Jen ^b   Huang, Hsiao Ling ^b   Carbone, Richard E ^c   Chang, Sau Wa ^d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Macau Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

Convective storms; Orographic effects; Rainfall; Storm environments; Summer warm season; Synoptic scale processes

Indexed keywords

ASIAN CONTINENT; CONCURRENT DEVELOPMENT; CONVECTIVE STORMS; EAST ASIA; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; LOW LEVEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; SOUTH-WESTERLY WINDS; STABILITY CONDITION; SUMMER/WARM SEASON; SYNOPTIC CONDITIONS; SYNOPTIC-SCALE PROCESSES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; VERTICAL SHEAR; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; VORTICITY ADVECTION; WARM SEASONS; WEAK FORCING;

ADVECTION; FLOW PATTERNS; MOISTURE; RAIN; STORMS; VORTEX FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SHEAR FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; FLOW PATTERN; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; STORM; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND SHEAR;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84863245695     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00067.1     Document Type: Article

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