Diurnal characteristics of precipitation features over the tropical East Pacific: A comparison of the EPIC and TEPPS regions

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 4068-4086

  Cifelli, Rob ^a   Nesbitt, S W ^b   Rutledge, S A ^a   Petersen, W A ^c   Yuter, S ^d  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG REDUCTION; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUXES; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; HYDRODYNAMICS; METEOROLOGY; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN GAGES; SATELLITES; TROPICS;

BUOY DATA; COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM; DIURNAL CHANGES; DIURNAL CYCLING; EAST PACIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CLIMATE; EASTERN PACIFIC; FLUX VARIABILITY; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE; IR DATA; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; OCEANIC REGIONS; PHASE LAGS; PRECIPITATION RADAR; RADAR ECHOES; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RAIN RATES; RAIN-INTENSITY; RAINFALL PATTERNS; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION;

RAIN;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA BUOY; DIURNAL VARIATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; INFRARED IMAGERY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NOAA SATELLITE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 53649086824     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI2020.1     Document Type: Article

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