From weather to climate - Seasonal and interannual variability of storms and implications for erosion processes in the Himalaya

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 398, Issue , 2006, Pages 17-38

  Barros, Ana P ^a   Chiao, Sen ^b   Lang, Timothy J ^c   Burbank, Douglas ^d   Putkonen, J ^e  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Erosion; Landform; Orography; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; EROSION; LANDFORMS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STORMS; TECTONICS;

CLIMATE; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL SIMULATIONS; OROGRAPHY; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE FORCING; EROSION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MONSOON; MOUNTAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STORM; SURFACE; TECTONICS; WEATHER;

HIMALAYAS;

EID: 84875000194     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/S2006.2398(02)     Document Type: Article

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