Impact of extensive irrigation on the formation of cumulus clouds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Kawase, Hiroaki ^a   Yoshikane, Takao ^a   Hara, Masayuki ^a   Kimura, Fujio ^a,b   Sato, Tomonori ^c   Ohsawa, Shingo ^d  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d WEATHERNEWS INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; IRRIGATION; LAND USE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIND;

CUMULUS CLOUDS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; MESOSCALE MODEL;

CLOUDS;

ARID REGION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CUMULUS; EXTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IRRIGATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HETAO; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 41549166205     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032435     Document Type: Article

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