GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS) Working Group 4: Precipitating Convective Cloud Systems

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 831-845

  Moncrieff, Mitchell W ^a   Krueger, Steven K ^b   Gregory, David ^c   Redelsperger, Jean Luc ^d   Tao, Wei Kuo ^e  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE CLOUD SYSTEM;

EID: 0031399069     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<0831:GCSSGW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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