Seasonal transition of predominant precipitation type and lightning activity over tropical monsoon areas derived from TRMM observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Kodama, Yasu Masa ^a   Ohta, Akihiro ^a   Katsumata, Masaki ^b   Mori, Shuichi ^b   Satoh, Shinsuke ^c   Ueda, Hiroaki ^d  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHTNING; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR IMAGING; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LIGHTNING ACTIVITY; PRE-MONSOON RAINFALL; TROPICAL MONSOON AREAS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

LIGHTNING; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 25444437278     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022986     Document Type: Article

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