The impact of regional uplift of the tibetan plateau on the asian monsoon climate

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 417, Issue , 2015, Pages 137-150

  Zhang, Ran ^a   Jiang, Dabang ^a,b,c   Zhang, Zhongshi ^b,d   Yu, Entao ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^d BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

East asian winter monsoon; Regional uplift; South asian summer monsoon; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CYCLONE; DIABATIC PROCESS; MOISTURE TRANSFER; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; UPLIFT;

CHINA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 84910003851     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.10.030     Document Type: Article

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