Persistence of Snow Cover Anomalies over the Tibetan Plateau and the Implications for Forecasting Summer Precipitation over the Meiyu-Baiu Region

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 115-119

  Ge, Liu ^a   Ren Guang, Wu ^b   Yuan Zhi, Zhang ^b,c  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

forecast; Meiyu; precipitation; snow cover; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84901296448     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3878/j.issn.1674-2834.13.0074     Document Type: Article

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