Modeled Chaco low-level jets and related precipitation patterns during the 1997-1998 warm season

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 94, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 129-143

  Nicolini, M ^a   Saulo, A C ^a  

^a Centro de Investigacion del Mar y la Atmosfera   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CONVECTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; JET STREAM; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADIATIVE FORCING;

ANDES; ARGENTINA; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA; URUGUAY;

EID: 33750504613     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-006-0186-7     Document Type: Article

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