Trends and variability in atmospheric precipitable water over the Tibetan Plateau for 2000-2010

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1394-1404

  Lu, Ning ^a   Qin, Jun ^b   Gao, Yang ^b   Yang, Kun ^b   Trenberth, Kevin E ^c   Gehne, Maria ^c   Zhu, Yunqiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

MODIS; Precipitable water; Tibetan Plateau; Trend and variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; MOISTURE; RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION PATTERNS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; PRECIPITABLE WATER; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TREND AND VARIABILITY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84922808706     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4064     Document Type: Article

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