Dynamics and prediction of a mesoscale extreme rain event in the baiu front over Kyushu, Japan

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1608-1629

  Davidson, Noel E ^a   Kurihara, Kazuo ^b   Kato, Teruyuki ^b   Mills, Graham ^a   Puri, Kamal ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENT; RAINFALL;

JAPAN;

EID: 0032443495     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<1608:DAPOAM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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