Diurnal variation of precipitable water and convective activity with dual maxima in summer season around Mt. Tanigawa in the northern Kanto District, Japan

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 805-816

  Iwasaki, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CONVERGENCE; DIURNAL VARIATION; PRECIPITABLE WATER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUMMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; MOUNT TANIGAWA;

EID: 3242751309     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2004.805     Document Type: Article

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