Contributions from California coastal-zone surface fluxes to heavy coastal precipitation: A CALJET case study during the strong El Niño of 1998

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1175-1198

  Persson, P Ola G ^a   Neiman, P J ^a   Walter, B ^b   Bao, J W ^a   Ralph, F M ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COASTAL ZONES; EXTRAPOLATION; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; METEOROLOGY; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COASTAL PRECIPITATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES (SST); SURFACE FLUXES;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

COASTAL ZONE; EL NINO; FLOODING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY;

CALIFORNIA SHELF; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 20444482900     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2910.1     Document Type: Article

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