Characteristics of strong updrafts in precipitation systems over the central Tropical Pacific Ocean and in the Amazon

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 731-738

  Anderson, Nicholas F ^a   Grainger, Cedric A ^a   Stith, Jeffrey L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Research Aviation Facility   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; STORMS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

IN SITU MEASUREMENTS; MASS FLUX; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM);

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; UPDRAFT;

AMAZONIA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 22744452612     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2231.1     Document Type: Article

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