Distribution of mesoscale convective complex rainfall in the United States

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3003-3017

  Ashley, Walker S ^a   Mote, Thomas L ^a   Dixon, P Grady ^a   Trotter, Sharon L ^a   Powell, Emily J ^a   Durkee, Joshua D ^a   Grundstein, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SATELLITES; STORMS;

MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE COMPLEX (MCC);

RAIN;

CLIMATOLOGY; CONVECTION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RAINFALL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346655445     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<3003:DOMCCR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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