Reexamining the barrier effect of the Tibetan Plateau on the South Asian summer monsoon

Climate of the Past

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1269-1275

  Chen, G S ^a   Liu, Z ^a   Kutzbach, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT SOURCE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TROPOSPHERE; WIND PROFILE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 84903609118     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-1269-2014     Document Type: Article

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