Diurnal variation of precipitation by moving mesoscale systems: Radar observations in northern Thailand

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 2003, Pages

  Okumura, K ^a,b   Satomura, T ^b   Oki, T ^c   Khantiyanan, Warawut ^d  

^a NOMURA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^d Bureau of the Royal Rainmaking and Agriculture Aviation   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE SHIFT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WIND; LANDFORMS; PHASE SHIFTERS; RADAR;

DIURNAL VARIATION; MESOSCALE SYSTEMS; DIURNAL CYCLE; ECHO-TRACKING; MESO-SCALE SYSTEMS; NORTHERN THAILAND; OBSERVATION AREA; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; WIND DIRECTIONS;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PHASE SHIFT;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; DIURNAL VARIATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

COPROSMA KAUENSIS;

EID: 1242300113     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018302     Document Type: Article

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