Proceedings of the First Sino-American Workshop on Mountain Meteorology, Beijing

This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the ‘First Sino-American Workshop on Mountain Meteorology, Beijing’, on 18-23 May, 1982. The papers focus on mountain meteorology and its impacts in Asia and China. The topics presented in this proceedings include: Planetary and large-scale effects of mountains on general circulation and climate, observational aspects, theoretical aspects, and numerical modeling, mesoscale effects of mountains on heavy rainfall and several local storms, observational aspects, and mountain-valley circulations and their effects on meteorological fields.