The tropical rainfall potential (TRaP) technique. Part I: Description and examples

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 456-464

  Kidder, Stanley Q ^a   Kusselson, Sheldon J ^b   Knaff, John A ^a   Ferraro, Ralph R ^b,c   Kuligowski, Robert J ^b   Turk, Michael ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FLOODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; RAIN; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

RAIN RATE; TROPICAL RAINFALL POTENTIAL (TRAP);

METEOROLOGY;

ALGORITHM; FORECASTING METHOD; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 24744450081     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF860.1     Document Type: Article

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