Water vapor transport for summer precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau: Multidata set analysis

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Feng, Lei ^a,b   Zhou, Tianjun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOISTURE; RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; BAY OF BENGAL; DATA SETS; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LONG-TERM TREND; MOISTURE CONVERGENCE; PRECIPITATION DATA; RAINFALL ANOMALY; REANALYSIS; SINK-IN; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; SUMMER RAINFALL; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WATER VAPOR TRANSPORT; WESTERN BOUNDARY;

VAPORS;

EID: 84868334651     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD017012     Document Type: Article

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