Can the tropical storms originated from the Bay of Bengal impact the precipitation and soil moisture over the Tibetan Plateau?

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 915-928

  Xiao, ZhiXiang ^a,b   Duan, AnMin ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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

Author keywords

Bay of Bengal; snow depth; soil moisture; the Tibetan Plateau; tropical storms; WRF

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; HURRICANES; MOISTURE; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SOILS; STORMS; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BAY OF BENGAL; SNOW DEPTHS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TROPICAL STORMS; WRF;

SOIL MOISTURE;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SNOW COVER; SOIL MOISTURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BAY OF BENGAL; CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84929836945     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: 18691897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-014-5028-8     Document Type: Article

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