Diurnal variation of convective activity and precipitable water around Ulaanbaatar Mongolia, and the impact of soil moisture on convective activity during nighttime

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1401-1415

  Iwasaki, Hiroyuki ^a,h   Sato, Tomonori ^b,c   Nii, Tomoki ^a,d   Kimura, Fujio ^e   Nakagawa, Kiyotaka ^f   Kaihotsu, Ichirow ^g   Koike, Toshio ^c  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d Iwagami Elementary School   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^f RISSHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CURING; DETECTORS; DRYING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FISH; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GROUNDWATER; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; THEOREM PROVING; VAPORS;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; CONVERGENCE (MATHEMATICS); DEE P CONVECTION; DIURNAL CYCLING; DIURNAL VARIATIONS; DIURNAL VARIATIONS (DV); DRY SOIL CONDITIONS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SATELLITE (GPS) RECEIVERS; LOCAL SOLAR TIME (LST); MOIST SOILS; MONGOLIA; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PRECIPITABLE WATER (PW); RADAR OBSERVATIONS;

WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DIURNAL VARIATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER VAPOR;

ASIA; CENTRAL PROVINCE [MONGOLIA]; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA; ULAANBAATAR;

EID: 45749121238     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2062.1     Document Type: Article

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