The summer snow cover anomaly over the Tibetan Plateau and its association with simultaneous precipitation over the mei-yu-baiu region

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 755-764

  Liu, Ge ^a   Wu, Renguang ^b   Zhang, Yuanzhi ^b,c   Nan, Sulan ^a  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

baiu; mei yu; precipitation; snow cover; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901370055     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-013-3183-z     Document Type: Article

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