Quantitative Analysis of Water Vapor Transport during Mei-Yu Front Rainstorm Period over the Tibetan Plateau and Yangtze-Huai River Basin

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Spatial distribution of (a, c, e) number of air parcels, (b, d, f) specific humidity carried by air parcels one day before reaching the target area (regions I, II, and III, red boxes) during 20 Mei-yu front precipitation events. (In a, b, and c, contours are the number of dry air parcels, shaded for geopotential height in hPa. In b, d, and f, contours are the specific humidity in g/kg, shaded for temperature in °C).

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