Diurnal land-sea rainfall peak migration over Sumatera Island, Indonesian Maritime Continent, observed by TRMM satellite and intensive rawinsonde soundings

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2021-2039

  Mori, Shuichi ^a   Jun Ichi, Hamada ^a   Tauhid, Yudi Iman ^a   Yamanaka, Manabu D ^a   Okamoto, Noriko ^b   Murata, Fumie ^b   Sakurai, Namiko ^b   Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki ^c   Sribimawati, Tien ^d  

^a Frontier Observational Res Syst Glo   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d AGENCY FOR THE ASSESSMENT AND APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY BPPT   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL CYCLE; PRECIPITATION RADARS (PR); RAINFALL PEAK MIGRATION; RAINFALL VARIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLOUDS; COASTAL ZONES; DATA REDUCTION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; SENSORS; SOUNDING APPARATUS; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

RAIN;

DIURNAL ACTIVITY; DIURNAL VARIATION; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

ASIA; EURASIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 4444309841     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<2021:DLRPMO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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