Impact of atmospheric convection on south Tibet summer precipitation isotopologue composition using a combination of in situmeasurements, satellite data, and atmospheric general circulation modeling

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3852-3871

  He, You ^a,b   Risi, Camille ^b   Gao, Jing ^a,c   Masson Delmotte, Valérie ^d   Yao, Tandong ^a,c   Lai, Chun Ta ^e   Ding, Yongjian ^a   Worden, John ^f   Frankenberg, Christian ^f   Chepfer, Helene ^b   Cesana, Gregory ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CNRS   (France)

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

^d LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^e SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CONDENSATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GOSAT; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

CHINA; LHASA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 84930383379     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022180     Document Type: Article

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