A comparative study on precipitation climatology and interannual variability in the lower midlatitude East Asia and central Asia

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7830-7848

  Yin, Zhi Yong ^a,b   Wang, Hongli ^a   Liu, Xiaodong ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL ASIA; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EAST ASIA; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MIDLATITUDES; PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEMIARID REGION; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; WESTERLY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EAST); CENTRAL ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PHILIPPINE SEA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84907851151     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00052.1     Document Type: Article

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