Coastal orographic rainfall processes observed by radar during the California land-falling jets experiment

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 264-282

  White, Allen B ^a   Neiman, Paul J ^b   Ralph, F Martin ^b   Kingsmill, David E ^c   Persson, P Ola G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL; REFLECTIVITY;

ALGORITHM; ALTITUDE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; REMOTE SENSING; RURAL AREA; UNITED STATES; WEATHER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0012768740     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1525-7541(2003)4<264:CORPOB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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