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 and (b, d, f) specific humidity carried by air parcels six days before reaching the target areas 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, and in (b), (d), and (f), contours are the specific humidity in g/kg, shaded for the temperature in °C).

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