Areal estimation of intensity and frequency of summertime precipitation over a midlatitude region

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2006, Pages

  Kursinski, Ana L ^a   Zeng, Xubin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; NUMERICAL METHODS; RAIN GAGES;

CLIMATE MODEL; MIDLATITUDE REGION; PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SUMMERTIME PRECIPITATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAUGE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR; RAINFALL; SUMMER;

NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548561631     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027393     Document Type: Article

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