Seasonal characteristics of precipitation in 1998 over East Asia as derived from TRMM PR

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 511-529

  Fu, Yunfei ^a,b   Lin, Yihua ^b   Liu, Guosheng ^c   Wang, Qiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Precipitation structure; Seasonal variability; TRMM PR

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

(EAST); ASIA;

EID: 0142156209     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02915495     Document Type: Article

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