Trade wind rainfall near the windward coast of Hawaii

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2847-2863

  Carbone, R E ^a   Tuttle, J D ^a   Cooper, W A ^a   Grubisic V ^a   Lee, W C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAINFALL; TRADE WIND;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033036334     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<2847:TWRNTW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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