Advances in Meteorology
Volume 2017 (2017), Article ID 6216032, 14 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/6216032
Research Article
Dynamical Modulation of Wintertime Synoptic-Scale Cyclone Activity over the Japan Sea due to Changbai Mountain in the Korean Peninsula
1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
2National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Tsukuba, Japan
Correspondence should be addressed to Ryuichi Kawamura; pj.ca.u-uhsuyk.m@031.ihciuyr.arumawak
Received 22 January 2017; Accepted 13 March 2017; Published 27 April 2017
Academic Editor: Mario M. Miglietta
Copyright © 2017 Hiroyuki Shimizu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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