Influence of the frontal systems on the day-to-day convection variability over South America

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1754-1766

  Siqueira, Jose Ricardo ^a   Machado, Luiz Augusto Toledo ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE AERONÁUTICA E ESPAÇO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; HEAT CONVECTION; MOISTURE; TROPICS; VORTEX FLOW; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DAY-TO-DAY CONVECTION VARIABILITIES; FRONTAL SYSTEMS; LATITUDE-TIME DIAGRAMS; SOUTH AMERICA;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CONVECTION; FRONTAL FEATURE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUBTROPICAL CONVERGENCE;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 2442538828     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<1754:IOTFSO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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