Trade wind rainfall atop Mount Waialeale, Kauai

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2217-2226

  Ramage, C S ^a   Schroeder, Thomas A ^b  

^a University of Hawaii at Manoa ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISLAND; MOUNTAIN REGION; RAINFALL; TRADE WIND;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033390610     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2217:TWRAMW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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