The relationship among precipitation, cloud-top temperature, and precipitable water over the tropics

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 8 PART 2, 1999, Pages 2503-2514

  Zeng, Xubin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLOUD; ESTIMATION METHOD; PRECIPITABLE WATER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 0033172558     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<2503:trapct>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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