Observational/forecasting aspects of the meteorological event that caused a record highest rainfall in Mumbai

Current Science

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1344-1362

  Jenamani, Rajendra Kumar ^a   Bhan, S C ^a   Kalsi, S R ^a  

^a INDIA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Isohyet analysis; Scale interaction; Synoptic scale feature; Thunderstorm

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745311757     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: 00113891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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