Climatology of monsoon precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau from 13-year TRMM observations

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 126, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 15-26

  Aijuan, Bai ^a   Guoping, Li ^a  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SUMMER; TRANSITION ZONE; TREND ANALYSIS; TRMM; WINTER;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84988507737     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-015-1555-2     Document Type: Article

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