How often does it rain over the global oceans? the perspective from CloudSat

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Ellis, Todd D ^a   L'Ecuyer, Tristan ^b   Haynes, John M ^b   Stephens, Graeme L ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDSAT; GLOBAL OCEANS; HIGH-LATITUDES; PRECIPITATION FREQUENCIES; RADAR DATUM; SEASONAL CYCLES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL SCALE; GLOBAL OCEAN; HIGH LATITUDES; PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY; SEASONAL CYCLE; SHIP OBSERVATIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY; SHIPS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

CLOUDS;

ANNUAL CYCLE; CLOUDSAT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GLOBAL OCEAN; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 65249161774     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036728     Document Type: Article

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