Impacts of Tibetan Plateau snow cover on the interannual variability of the East Asian summer monsoon

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 8495-8514

  Xiao, Zhixiang ^a,b   Duan, Anmin ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b Guangxi Meteorological Observatory   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Albedo; Atmospheric circulation; Diabatic heating; Interannual variability; Shortwave radiation; Snow cover

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DIABATIC HEATING; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SNOW COVERS;

SNOW;

ALBEDO; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DIABATIC PROCESS; HEATING; MONSOON; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SNOW COVER;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84996773820     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0029.1     Document Type: Article

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