Behavior of GPS-derived precipitable water vapor in the mountain lee after the passage of a cold front

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 14, 2003, Pages

  Okamura, Osamu ^a   Kimura, Fujio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL METHODS; WIND;

WATER VAPOR; COLD FRONT; GPS-DERIVED PRECIPITABLE WATER; MESOSCALE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR; PRECIPITATION SYSTEMS; PREVAILING WINDS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WATER VAPOR;

GPS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITABLE WATER;

EID: 0141976754     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017572     Document Type: Article

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