Radar observations of the kinematic, microphysical, and precipitation characteristics of two MCSs in TRMM LBA

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 20, 2002, Pages LBA-44-1-LBA-44-16

  Cifelli, Robert ^a   Petersen, Walter A ^a   Carey, Lawrence D ^a   Rutledge, Steven A ^a   Da Silva Dias, Maria A F ^b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

3314 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Convective processes; 3329 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Mesoscale meteorology; 3354 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Precipitation (1854)

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; METEOROLOGY; POLARIMETERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN;

PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 36448985346     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000JD000264     Document Type: Article

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