Surface rainfall-cold cloud fractional coverage relationship in TOGA COARE: A function of vertical wind shear

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 407-415

  Saxen, Thomas R ^a,b   Rutledge, Steven A ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; RAINFALL; TOGA-COARE; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 0034112396     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<0407:SRCCFC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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