The link between Tibetan Plateau monsoon and Indian summer precipitation: a linear diagnostic perspective

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 49, Issue 11-12, 2017, Pages 4201-4215

  Ge, Fei ^a,b,c   Sielmann, Frank ^d   Zhu, Xiuhua ^d   Fraedrich, Klaus ^b   Zhi, Xiefei ^c   Peng, Ting ^c   Wang, Lei ^a  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetric influence; Indian summer monsoon rainfall; Tibetan Plateau summer monsoon (TPSM); Tibetan Plateau thermal forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SUMMER; VORTICITY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 85014680472     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3585-1     Document Type: Article

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