Meso-a-scale wind field and precipitating clouds in typhoon 9426 (Orchid) observed by the MU radar

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 211-228

  Shibagaki, Yoshiaki ^a   Yamanaka, Manabu D ^b,c   Kita Fukase, Minori ^d   Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki ^e   Maekawa, Yasuyuki ^a   Fukao, Shoichiro ^e  

^a OSAKA ELECTRO COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Frontier Observ Res Syst Global   (Japan)

^d Weather News International Company   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD; KINEMATICS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; TYPHOON; WIND;

JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0041345941     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.81.211     Document Type: Article

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