Climate of China

Download or read book Climate of China written by Jiacheng Zhang and published by . This book was released on 1992-09-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a complete treatment regarding the general circulation over China, formation of its climate, climatic variations and delineation of climate regions. Temperature, precipitation, wind and cloud cover are detailed along with such weather phenomena as thunderstorms, fog and hailstorms, especially with respect to their spatial and temporal distributions. Special attention is paid throughout to the geographic factors controlling the climate--latitude, elevation, land, sea, topography, slope orientation, etc. Contains 100 climatological charts based on 20 years of data from over 700 stations.