Water vapor transport and the production of precipitation in the Eastern fertile crescent

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1295-1307

  Evans, Jason P ^a   Smith, R B ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA PROCESSING; DOWNSCALING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 33846277929     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM550.1     Document Type: Article

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