The simulation of water vapor transport in East Asia using a regional air-sea coupled model

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1585-1600

  Yao, Suxiang ^a   Huang, Qian ^a   Zhang, Yaocun ^b   Zhou, Xu ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

air sea coupled model; East Asia; water vapor transport

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COUPLED MODELS; EAST ASIA; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); VERTICALLY INTEGRATED MOISTURE TRANSPORTS; WATER VAPOR TRANSPORT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84880867247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50089     Document Type: Article

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