Revisiting Asian monsoon formation and change associated with Tibetan Plateau forcing: II. Change

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1183-1195

  Liu, Yimin ^a   Wu, Guoxiong ^a   Hong, Jieli ^a,c   Dong, Buwen ^b   Duan, Anmin ^a   Bao, Qing ^a   Zhou, Linjiong ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Global warming; Positive feedback mechanism; Rainfall pattern; Tibetan Plateau thermal forcing; Vorticity balance

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GLOBAL WARMING; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SUMMER; VORTICITY; WATER VAPOR;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84865609671     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1335-y     Document Type: Article

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