Relationship between an abrupt drought-flood transition over mid-low reaches of the Yangtze River in 2011 and the intraseasonal oscillation over mid-high latitudes of East Asia

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 129-143

  Yang, Shuangyan ^a   Wu, Bingyi ^a   Zhang, Renhe ^a   Zhou, Shunwu ^b  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

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

Author keywords

drought flood abrupt alternation; intraseasonal oscillation; the East Asian mid high latitude area; the mid low reaches of the Yangtze River

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CYCLONE; DROUGHT; FLOOD; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE; WESTERLY;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84882777174     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: 21914788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13351-013-0201-0     Document Type: Article

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