Convective and stratiform components of tropical cloud clusters in determining radar adjusted satellite rainfall during the TOGA-COARE IOP

Journal of the Hokkaido University, Faculty of Science, Series VII: Geophysics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 265-300

  Islam, Nazrul ^a,b   Uyeda, Hiroshi ^a   Kikuchi, Osamu ^a   Kikuchi, Katsuhiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE RAINFALL; RADAR; RAINFALL; TOGA-COARE;

EID: 0344541867     PISSN: 0441067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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