Extratropical Factors Affecting the Variability in Summer Precipitation over the Yangtze River Basin, China

• Published in: Journal of climate Vol. 30; no. 20; pp. 8357 - 8374
• Main Authors: Li, Xinyu, Lu, Riyu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Meteorological Society 15.10.2017

The Yangtze River basin (YRB), a typical East Asian monsoon region, experiences a large year-to-year variability in summer precipitation and is subject to both floods and droughts. There is a well-known seesaw relationship in precipitation between the tropical western North Pacific and the YRB, but...