Areal differences in diurnal variations in summer precipitation over Beijing metropolitan region

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 395-408

  Wang, Jiali ^a,b   Zhang, Renhe ^c   Wang, Yingchun ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^d NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HEATING; METROPOLITAN AREA; MOUNTAIN REGION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBURBAN AREA; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84870290921     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0636-8     Document Type: Article

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