Springtime precipitation and water vapor flux over southeastern South America

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1328-1346

  Berbery, Ernesto H ^a   Collini, Estela A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Argentine Hydrographic Service   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPRING (SEASON); WATER VAPOR;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033929780     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<1328:SPAWVF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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