Weather and climate effects of the Tibetan Plateau

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 978-992

  Duan, Anmin ^a   Wu, Guoxiong ^a   Liu, Yimin ^a   Ma, Yaoming ^b   Zhao, Ping ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

climate; observation; Tibetan Plateau; weather

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865621537     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-1220-y     Document Type: Article

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