Diurnal patterns of rainfall in a tropical Andean valley of southern Ecuador as seen by a vertically pointing K-band Doppler radar

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 829-846

  Bendix, Jörg ^a   Rollenbeck, Rütger ^a   Reudenbach, Christoph ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Andes; Ecuador; Radar profiler; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DATA REDUCTION; DOPPLER RADAR; DROP FORMATION; RADAR IMAGING; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING;

DIURNAL PATTERN; SOUTHERN ECUADOR; TROPICAL ANDEAN VALLEY; VERTICALLY POINTING K-BAND DOPPLER RADAR;

CLIMATOLOGY;

DOPPLER RADAR; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL;

ANDES; ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33646455343     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1267     Document Type: Article

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