Precipitation characteristics in mid-latitude East Asia as observed by TRMM PR and TMI

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1353-1369

  Fu, Yunfei ^a   Liu, Guosheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 1842735813     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.81.1353     Document Type: Article

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