Summer rain fall duration and its diurnal cycle over the US great plains

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1515-1519

  Chen, Haoming ^a,b   Zhou, Tianjun ^a   Yu, Rucong ^c   Li, Jian ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

Diurnal cycle; Duration; Summer rainfall

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL CYCLE; DURATION; LOCAL SOLAR TIME; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; RAIN GAUGE DATA; RAINFALL EVENT; SUMMER RAINFALL;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RAIN;

SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING;

CONVECTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SUMMER;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 69849095097     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1806     Document Type: Article

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