Prevalence of precipitation from warm-topped clouds over eastern Asia and the western Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 220-229

  Petty, Grant W ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; INFRARED IMAGING; MICROWAVES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

WARM-TOPPED CLOUDS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLOUD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE;

(EAST); (WEST); ASIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033045959     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442-12.1.220     Document Type: Article

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