Mesoscale convective systems and critical clusters

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2913-2924

  Peters, Ole ^a   Neelin, J David ^a   Nesbitt, Stephen W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT PIXELS; CLUSTER PROPERTY; CRITICAL CLUSTER; CRITICAL REGION; FRACTAL OBJECTS; FULLY COMPATIBLE; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; GRADIENT PERCOLATION; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; LARGE CLUSTERS; LOW WATER; MEAN CLUSTER SIZE; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MODEL DATA; NONTRIVIAL SCALING; NULL MODEL; ONSET OF CONVECTION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERCOLATION THEORY; PRECIPITATION THRESHOLD; QUANTITATIVE PREDICTION; RADAR DATA; RADIUS OF GYRATION; RAIN RATES; SATELLITE RADAR; SCALE-FREE; SUPERCRITICAL WATER; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

FRACTAL DIMENSION; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); PHASE TRANSITIONS; PIXELS; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN; SATELLITES; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOLVENTS; STORMS;

WATER VAPOR;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PERCOLATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PIXEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 70349267637     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2761.1     Document Type: Article

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