Summer rainfall over the southwestern Tibetan Plateau controlled by deep convection over the Indian subcontinent

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Dong, Wenhao ^a   Lin, Yanluan ^a   Wright, Jonathon S ^a   Ming, Yi ^b   Xie, Yuanyu ^a   Wang, Bin ^a,c   Luo, Yong ^a   Uang, Wenyu ^a   Huang, Jianbin ^a   Wang, Lei ^d   Tian, Lide ^d   Peng, Yiran ^a   Xu, Fanghua ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; HYDROMETRY; MOISTURE TRANSFER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RUNOFF; SUMMER;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CHINA; INDIA; SUMMER; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84960395525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10925     Document Type: Article

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