Contrasting characteristics of convection over the northern and southern South China Sea during SCSMEX

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1041-1062

  Ciesielski, Paul E ^a   Johnson, Richard H ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR IMAGING; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUNDING APPARATUS; WIND;

DEEP CONVECTION; NORTHERN ENHANCED SOUNDING ARRAY; RADAR ANALYSIS; RAIN RATE; SOUNDING ARRAY; SOUTH CHINA SEA MONSOON EXPERIMENT; SOUTHERN ENHANCED SOUNDING ARRAY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; MONSOON; OCEANIC CONVECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINES; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 33646448571     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3113.1     Document Type: Article

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