Analysis of 2002 and 2003 warm-season precipitation from the North American monsoon experiment event rain gauge network

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2938-2953

  Gochis, David J ^a   Jimenez, Alejandro ^b   Watts, Christopher J ^b   Garatuza Payan, Jaime ^c   Shuttleworth, W James ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Inst Medio Ambiente/Desarollo S   (Mexico)

^c Departamento de Ciencias del Agua y del Medio Ambiente   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; LANDFORMS; RAIN GAGES;

NORTH AMERICAN EVENT RAIN GAGE NETWORK (NERN); NORTH AMERICAN MONSOON EXPERIMENT (NAME); TERRAIN ELEVATION; TERRAIN PROFILE;

RAIN;

DIURNAL VARIATION; MONITORING SYSTEM; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 11844292033     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2838.1     Document Type: Article

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