Mesoscale and convective scale features of heavy rainfall events in late period of the Baiu season in July 1988, Nagasaki prefecture

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 539-561

  Takahashi, Nobuhiro ^a,b   Uyeda, Hiroshi ^a   Kikuchi, Katsuhiro ^a   Iwanami, Koyuru ^a,c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

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EID: 0039861960     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj1965.74.4_539     Document Type: Article

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