The role of synoptic cloud in orographic rainfall in the Southern Alps of New Zealand

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 355-365

  Purdy, J C ^a   Austin, G L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOPOGRAPHY;

ALPINE REGIONS; CLIMATIC FEATURES; CLOUD DROPS; HEAVY RAINFALL; OROGRAPHIC RAINFALLS; SATELLITE DATA; SOUTH ISLAND , NEW ZEALAND; WESTERLY WINDS;

RAIN;

AIR MASS; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 1442360480     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482703001087     Document Type: Article

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