Characteristics of rainfall distributions over Taiwan during the Taiwan area mesoscale experiment (TAMEX)

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1457-1469

  Yeh, Hsi Chyi ^a   Chen, Yi Leng ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0000192322     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1998)037<1457:CORDOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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