Climatic properties of tropical precipitating convection under varying environmental conditions

Journal of Climate

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 2597-2615

  Del Genio, Anthony D ^a   Kovari, William ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLOUDS; HYDROLOGY; MICROWAVES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS; SUN;

MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALGORITHM; CONVECTION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM;

EID: 0037106761     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<2597:CPOTPC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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