Impact assessment of orography on the extreme precipitation event of july 2010 over Pakistan: A numerical study

Advances in Meteorology

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Muhammad Tahir, Khan ^a,b   Yin, Yan ^a   Wang, Yong ^a   Babar, Zaheer A ^a,b   Yan, Dong ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PAKISTAN METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT   (Pakistan)

^c Beijing Meteorological Bureau   (China)

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EID: 84928141316     PISSN: 16879309     EISSN: 16879317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/510417     Document Type: Review

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