Urban effects on convective precipitation in Mexico City

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 3383-3389

  Jauregui, Ernesto ^a   Romales, Ernesto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Mexico city; Urban climatology; Urban hydrology; Urban precipitation

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; CLOUD; MEXICO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPIC CLIMATE; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION; URBAN CLIMATE; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

MEXICO, MEXICO CITY;

CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEWAGE; STORMS; TROPICS; URBAN PLANNING;

AUTOMATIC RAINFALL STATIONS; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; HEAT ISLAND PHENOMENON; MEXICO CITY; RAIN CLOUD CELLS; RAIN SHOWERS; RAINSTORMS; URBANIZATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EID: 0030251173     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(96)00041-6     Document Type: Article

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