Some common ingredients for heavy orographic rainfall

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 633-660

  Lin, Yuh Lang ^a   Chiao, Sen ^a   Wang, Ting An ^a   Kaplan, Michael L ^a   Weglarz, Ronald P ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; FLOODS; JETS; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS;

RAIN;

MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; RAINFALL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035711463     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2001)016<0633:SCIFHO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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