Diurnal precipitation regimes in the global tropics

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2680-2696

  Kikuchi, Kazuyoshi ^a   Wang, Bin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COASTAL ZONES; CRACK PROPAGATION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LANDFORMS; NANOFLUIDICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; TROPICS;

AMERICA; ATLANTIC; AUSTRALIA; COASTAL AREAS; CONVERGENCE ZONES; DATA-SETS; DIURNAL CYCLING; DIURNAL PRECIPITATION; DIURNAL VARIATIONS; ECUADOR; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; EQUATORIAL AFRICA; GLOBAL TROPICS; INDIAN OCEANS; LAKE VICTORIA; LARGE AMPLITUDES; LOCAL SOLAR TIME; MARITIME CONTINENT; NORTHEAST BRAZIL; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PHASE CHARACTERISTICS; PHASE INFORMATIONS; PHASE PROPAGATION; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIAL COVERAGE; SPATIAL STRUCTURING; TEMPORAL EVOLUTIONS; TOTAL VARIANCE; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION; UNDERLYING MECHANISM; WEST COAST;

ATMOSPHERICS;

COASTAL ZONE; DATA SET; DIURNAL VARIATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BRAZIL; INDIAN OCEAN; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48749112898     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI2051.1     Document Type: Article

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