Environmental characteristics of convective systems during TRMM-LBA

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1493-1509

  Halverson, Jeffrey B ^a   Rickenbach, Thomas ^a   Roy, Biswadev ^a   Pierce, Harold ^a   Williams, Earle ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DATA ACQUISITION; DOPPLER EFFECT; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RAIN; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

THERMAL INSTABILITY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR MASS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; THERMODYNAMICS; TOGA-COARE; TRADE WIND;

BRAZIL; RONDONIA STATE;

EID: 0036612054     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<1493:ECOCSD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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