Synergistic contribution of precipitation anomalies over northwestern India and the South China Sea to high temperature over the Yangtze River Valley

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1255-1265

  Liu, Ge ^a   Wu, Renguang ^b,c   Sun, Shuqing ^c   Wang, Huimei ^a  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

ECHAM5; high temperature events; precipitation; Yangtze River Valley

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937411207     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-015-4280-y     Document Type: Article

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