Formation of the anomalous summer precipitation in east China in 2010 and 1998: A comparison of the impacts of two kinds of El Niño

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 665-682

  Wang, Qin ^a,b,c   Li, Shuanglin ^b   Fu, Jianjian ^b   Li, Guoping ^a  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c CIVIL AVIATION FLIGHT UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

AGCM sensitivity experiments; El Ni o and El Ni o Modoki; summer rainfall in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River; western North Pacific anticyclone

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EL NINO; FLOOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; WARMING; WATER VAPOR;

BAY OF BENGAL; CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84882786881     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: 21914788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13351-012-0601-6     Document Type: Article

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