Frontal rainfall-rate distribution and some conclusions on the threshold method

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1128-1139

  Cheng, Minghu ^a   Qi, Yanjun ^a  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAIN;

RAINFALL-RATE DISTRIBUTION;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC FRONT; PIXEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAINFALL;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0036867556     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2002)041<1128:FRRDAS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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