Shipboard Radar Rainfall Patterns within the TOGA COARE IFA

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2817-2836

  Short, David A ^a,e   Kucera, Paul A ^b   Ferrier, Brad S ^c   Gerlach, John C ^a   Rutledge, Steven A ^d   Thiele, Otto W ^a  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b Applied Research Corporation   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN COUPLING; RADAR; RAINFALL; TOGA-COARE; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC, (TROPICAL);

EID: 0031396775     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<2817:SRRPWT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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