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contributor authorLau, K. M.
contributor authorDing, Yihui
contributor authorWang, Jough-Tai
contributor authorJohnson, Richard
contributor authorKeenan, Tom
contributor authorCifelli, Robert
contributor authorGerlach, John
contributor authorThiele, Otto
contributor authorRickenbach, Tom
contributor authorTsay, Si-Chee
contributor authorLin, Po-Hsiung
date accessioned2017-06-09T14:42:43Z
date available2017-06-09T14:42:43Z
date copyright2000/06/01
date issued2000
identifier issn0003-0007
identifier otherams-24982.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4161714
description abstractThe South China Sea Monsoon Experiment (SCSMEX) is an international field experiment with the objective to better understand the key physical processes for the onset and evolution of the summer monsoon over Southeast Asia and southern China aiming at improving monsoon predictions. In this article, a description of the major meteorological observation platforms during the intensive observing periods of SCSMEX is presented. In addition, highlights of early results and discussions of the role of SCSMEX in providing valuable in situ data for calibration of satellite rainfall estimates from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission are provided. Preliminary results indicate that there are distinctive stages in the onset of the South China Sea monsoon including possibly strong influences from extratropical systems as well as from convection over the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal. There is some tantalizing evidence of complex interactions between the supercloud cluster development over the Indian Ocean, advancing southwest monsoon flow over the South China Sea, midlatitude disturbances, and the western Pacific subtropical high, possibly contributing to the disastrous flood of the Yangtze River Basin in China during June 1998.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleA Report of the Field Operations and Early Results of the South China Sea Monsoon Experiment (SCSMEX)
typeJournal Paper
journal volume81
journal issue6
journal titleBulletin of the American Meteorological Society
identifier doi10.1175/1520-0477(2000)081<1261:AROTFO>2.3.CO;2
journal fristpage1261
journal lastpage1270
treeBulletin of the American Meteorological Society:;2000:;volume( 081 ):;issue: 006
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