Tibetan Plateau Forcing and the Timing of the Monsoon Onset over South Asia and the South China Sea
@article{Wu1998TibetanPF, title={Tibetan Plateau Forcing and the Timing of the Monsoon Onset over South Asia and the South China Sea}, author={Guoxiong Wu and Yongsheng Zhang}, journal={Monthly Weather Review}, year={1998}, volume={126}, pages={913-927} }
Abstract Observations were employed to study the thermal characteristics of the Tibetan Plateau and its neighboring regions, and their impacts on the onset of the Asian monsoon in 1989. Special attention was paid to the diagnosis of the temporal and spatial distributions of surface sensible and latent heat fluxes. Results show that the whole procedure of the outbreak of the Asian monsoon onset is composed of three consequential stages. The first is the monsoon onset over the eastern coast of…
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