Monitoring the monsoon in the Himalayas: Observations in Central Nepal, June 2001

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1408-1427

  Barros, Ana P ^a   Lang, Timothy J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHTNING; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; NATURAL CONVECTION; RAIN; THERMODYNAMICS; THUNDERSTORMS;

MONSOON DEPRESSION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADIOSONDE; WESTERLY;

NEPAL;

EID: 0042594581     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<1408:MTMITH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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