Differences in rain rate intensities between TRMM observations and community atmosphere model simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Deng, Yi ^a   Bowman, Kenneth P ^b   Jackson, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; LATENT HEAT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RAIN GAGES;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL;

NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548047891     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027246     Document Type: Article

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