A climatology of warm-season cloud patterns over East Asia based on GMS infrared brightness temperature observations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1606-1629

  Wang, Chung Chieh ^a   Chen, George Tai Jen ^b   Carbone, Richard E ^c  

^a JINWEN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; CONDENSATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; METEOROLOGY; RADAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CLOUD PATTERNS; GEOSTATIONARY METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE (GMS); SYNOPTIC-SCALE WAVES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD COVER; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 3943103342     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<1606:ACOWCP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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