Characteristics of convective clouds observed by a doppler radar at Naqu on tibetan plateau during the GAME-Tibet IOP

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 79, Issue 1 SPEC. ISSUE, 2001, Pages 463-474

  Uyeda, Hiroshi ^a,g   Yamada, Hiroyuki ^b,h   Horikomi, Junichi ^c,i   Shirooka, Ryuichi ^d,j   Shimizu, Shuji ^e,k   Liping, Liu ^f   Ueno, Ken'ichi ^a   Fujii, Hideyuki ^a   Koike, Toshio ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR HOKKAIDO REGION   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

^f NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^g Nagoya University   (Japan)

^h Frontier Observational Research System for Global Change   (Japan)

ⁱ TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^j STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 23044527295     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.79.463     Document Type: Article

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