Dry tropical nights and wet extreme heat in Beijing: Atypical configurations between high temperature and humidity

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1792-1802

  Chen, Ruidan ^a,b   Lu, Riyu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY;

HIGH TEMPERATURE; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY;

SUN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84899823837     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00289.1     Document Type: Article

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