Tropical rainfall associated with convective and stratiform clouds: Intercomparison of disdrometer and profiler measurements

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 302-320

  Tokay, Ali ^a   Short, David A ^a   Williams, Christopher R ^b   Ecklund, Warner L ^b   Gage, Kenneth S ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 0032718255     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1999)038<0302:TRAWCA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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