Tropical convection and precipitation regimes in the western United States

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2404-2423

  Mo, Kingtse C ^a   Higgins, R W ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); ROSSBY WAVE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

(WEST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032455160     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<2404:TCAPRI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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