Microphysical and large-scale dependencies of temporal rainfall variability over a tropical ocean

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 724-748

  Tsintikidis, Dimitris ^a   Georgakakos, Konstantine P ^a,b  

^a HYDROLOGIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TROPICS;

MOMENTUM CONSERVATION EQUATION; TEMPORAL RAINFALL VARIABILITY;

RAIN;

EID: 0033098647     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<0724:MALSDO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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