Eulerian and Lagrangian correlation structures of convective rainstorms

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2671-2683

  May, Don R ^a   Julien, Pierre Y ^b  

^a FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; EULERIAN MODEL; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; RAINSTORM;

KINEMATICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; STORMS; THUNDERSTORMS;

CONVECTIVE INITIATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATION STRUCTURE; CROSS-CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION; LAGRANGIAN REFERENCE FRAME; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT;

RAIN;

EID: 0031656421     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR01531     Document Type: Article

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