Flooding on California's Russian River: Role of atmospheric rivers

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Ralph, F Martin ^a,c   Neiman, Paul J ^a,c   Wick, Gary A ^a,c   Gutman, Seth I ^a,c   Dettinger, Michael D ^b   Cayan, Daniel R ^b   White, Allen B ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Earth System Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; COASTAL ZONES; FLOODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VAPORS;

ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS; WATER BUDGET; WATER VAPOR;

RIVERS;

FLOODING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; SSM-I; WATER VAPOR;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); RUSSIAN RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845616196     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026689     Document Type: Article

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