Diurnal responses of tropical convective and stratiform rainfall to diurnally varying sea surface temperature

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 53-61

  Cui, Xiaopeng ^a   Li, Xiaofan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DIURNAL VARIATION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 67349083861     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-008-0016-1     Document Type: Article

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