Diurnal patterns of rainfall in northwestern South America. Part II: Model simulations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 813-829

  Warner, Thomas T ^a   Mapes, Brian E ^b   Xu, Mei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; RAIN; STORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

DIURNAL PATTERNS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DIURNAL VARIATION; MODEL VALIDATION; RAINFALL;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0038660138     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<0813:DPORIN>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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