Simulation of diurnal patterns of summer precipitation in the North American monsoon: An assessment using TRMM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Zou, Cheng Zhi ^a,b   Zheng, Weizhong ^b,c  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation   (United States)

^c QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

BIOSPHERE; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; DIURNAL VARIATION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUMMER;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 3042781554     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019415     Document Type: Article

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