Research Article

Cause Analysis on Eastward Movement of Southwest China Vortex and Its Induced Heavy Rainfall in South China

Figure 1

The SWV (a) movement pathway (dark line with arrows) and (b) center vorticity variation at 700 hPa tracked every 6 hours from 18 UTC June 10, 2008 to 18 UTC June 13, 2008 (the unit of vorticity is 10−5 s−1); D indicating the SWV centers.
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