Trends in summer rainfall over china associated with the Tibetan Plateau sensible heat source during 1980-2008

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 261-275

  Duan, Anmin ^a   Wang, Meirong ^a   Lei, Yonghui ^b   Cui, Yangfan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HEAT; DIABATIC HEATING; EAST ASIA; HEAVY RAINFALL; HISTORICAL RECORDS; LAND-SEA THERMAL CONTRASTS; MONSOON CIRCULATIONS; NORTHERN CHINA; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PRECIPITATION TRENDS; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; SENSIBLE HEAT; SNOW DEPTHS; SOUTHERN CHINA; SUMMER RAINFALL; THERMAL FORCING; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIME-PERIODS;

SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

RAIN;

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEAT SOURCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SUMMER; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84872961261     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00669.1     Document Type: Article

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