A study of landscape-generated deep moist convection

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 928-942

  Lynn, Barry H ^a,b   Tao, Wei Kuo ^b   Wetzel, Peter J ^b  

^a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; RAINFALL; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE HETEROGENEITY;

EID: 0031667152     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<0928:ASOLGD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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