The Impact of the Eastward Propagation of Convective Systems over the Tibetan Plateau on the Southwest Vortex Formation in Summer

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-57

  Shen Ming, Fu ^a   Jian Hua, Sun ^a,b   Si Xiong, Zhao ^a   Wan Li, Li ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

convective system; latent heat release; plateau edge cyclogenesis; southwest vortex; temperature of the black body; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; EQUATION; SUMMER; VORTEX FLOW;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84872491594     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2010.11446836     Document Type: Article

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