Regional distribution and diurnal variation of deep convective systems over the Asian monsoon region

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 843-854

  Wu, XueKe ^a   Qie, XiuShu ^b   Yuan, Tie ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Asian monsoon region; deep convective systems; diurnal variation; regional distribution; TRMM

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LUMINANCE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN GAGES;

ASIAN MONSOON; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; DIURNAL VARIATION; REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION; TRMM;

RAIN;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DIURNAL VARIATION; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; MONSOON; RADAR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRMM; UPDRAFT;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 85027956171     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-012-4551-8     Document Type: Article

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