Sensitivity of North American monsoon rainfall to multisource sea surface temperatures in MM5

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2922-2939

  Li, Jialun ^a   Gao, X ^a   Maddox, R A ^b   Sorooshan, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SPECTROMETERS; TEMPERATURE; WIND;

MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMAL INFRARED IMAGERY (TIR);

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; MODIS; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 27744490215     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3011.1     Document Type: Article

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