Impact of scatterometer winds on hydrologic forcing and convective heating through surface divergence

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1556-1576

  Hsu, Carol S ^a   Liu, W Timothy ^a   Wurtele, Morton G ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0000120227     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<1556:IOSWOH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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