Relationships between cloud properties and precipitation amount over the Amazon basin

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 82, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 239-247

  Kawamoto, Kazuaki ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Amazon basin; Cloud properties; Precipitation amount

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLOUD PROPERTIES; COLUMNAR-INTEGRATED DROPLET NUMBER; LOW-LEVEL WATER CLOUDS; OPTICAL DEPTHS;

CLOUDS;

AEROSOL; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD WATER; OPTICAL DEPTH; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY;

AMAZON BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33749155780     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2005.10.007     Document Type: Article

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