Radar characteristics of precipitation features in the EPIC and TEPPS regions of the East Pacific

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1576-1595

  Cifelli, Robert ^a   Nesbitt, S W ^a   Rutledge, S A ^a   Petersen, W A ^b   Yuter, S ^c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM (MCS); SHIP-BASED RADAR DATA; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM);

CLIMATOLOGY;

PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 33847401704     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3340.1     Document Type: Article

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