Differences between East and West Pacific rainfall systems

Journal of Climate

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 3659-3672

  Berg, Wesley ^a   Kummerow, Christian ^a   Morales, Carlos A ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; RADAR; RAIN;

RAINFALL SYSTEMS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL PATTERN;

(EAST); (WEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037116318     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<3659:DBEAWP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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