Analysis of the Qinghai-Xizang plateau monsoon evolution and its linkages with soil moisture

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Zhou, Juan ^a,b   Wen, Jun ^a   Wang, Xin ^a   Jia, Dongyu ^a,b   Chen, Jinlei ^a,b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Monsoon; Plateau monsoon index; Qinghai Xizang Plateau; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; MOISTURE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; INTER-DECADAL VARIATIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; METEOROLOGICAL ELEMENTS; MONSOON; MONSOON INDEX; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SYNOPTIC CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84974792597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8060493     Document Type: Article

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