Intraseasonal variation of raindrop size distribution at Koto Tabang, West Sumatra, Indonesia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Kozu, Toshiaki ^a   Shimomai, Toyoshi ^a   Akramin, Zainul ^a   Marzuki, ^a   Shibagaki, Yoshiaki ^b   Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki ^c  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA ELECTRO COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DROP FORMATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; OSCILLATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; CLIMATOLOGY; DROPS; RADAR; RAIN; REFLECTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

2D VIDEO DIDROMETER (2DVD); BOUNDARY LAYER RADAR (BLR); INTRAREASONAL VARIATION; RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION (DSD);

RAIN; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

DROPLET; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; RADAR IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDONESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WEST SUMATRA; WORLD;

DRYAS IULIA;

BOUNDARY LAYER RADAR; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; EQUATORIAL ATMOSPHERE RADAR; INTRASEASONAL VARIATIONS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MARSHALL-PALMER; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 21844439016     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL022340     Document Type: Article

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