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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

Hiroyuki Shimizu,1 Ryuichi Kawamura,1 Tetsuya Kawano,1 and Satoshi Iizuka2

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

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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