Nocturnal cloud systems and the diurnal variation of clouds and rainfall in southwestern Amazonia

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1201-1219

  Rickenbach, Thomas M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RAIN;

CLOUD SYSTEMS; SOUNDING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD COVER; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DIURNAL VARIATION; RAINFALL;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 2442712425     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<1201:NCSATD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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