CIrculation systems over China

Introduction: The Earth's atmosphere is in continuous motion: movement which is attempting to balance the constant differences in pressure and temperature between different parts of the globe. It is this motion which carries water from the ocean to the continents to provide precipitation and moves heat energy from the tropical regions toward the poles, warming the high latitudes. It is this circulation which plays a basic part in maintaining a steady state in the atmosphere …

…Tibet Plateau, northern part of Inner Mongolia as under non-monsoonal continental climate type, and the rest of the vast territory is under circulation-determined monsoon type climate. References: JOHN J. H. & JOHN E. O. (1993), Climatology: An Atmospheric Science, Macmillan Publishing Company: New York. MANFRED D. & PENG G. (1988), The Climate of China, Springer-Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg. ZHANG J. & LIN Z. (1992), Climate of China, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. & Shanghai Scientific and Technical Publishers: Shanghai.