The meso-γ scale water vapor distribution associated with a thunderstorm calculated from a dense network of GPS receivers

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 82, Issue 1 B, 2004, Pages 569-586

  Seko, Hiromu ^a   Nakamura, Hajime ^b   Shoji, Yoshinori ^a   Iwabuchi, Tetsuya ^c  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GPS; PRECIPITABLE WATER; REMOTE SENSING; THUNDERSTORM; WATER VAPOR;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; IBARAKI; JAPAN; KANTO; TSUKUBA;

EID: 2942558500     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2004.569     Document Type: Article

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