Notes and correspondence differences in raindrop size distribution from southwest monsoon to northeast monsoon at Gadanki

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 643, 2009, Pages 1630-1637

  Narayana Rao, T ^a   Radhakrishna, B ^a   Nakamura, K ^b   Prabhakara Rao, N ^c  

^a NATIONAL ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Continental and oceanic rain; Indian monsoon; Mass weighted mean diameter

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL AND OCEANIC RAIN; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; DISDROMETERS; DIURNAL VARIATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INDIAN MONSOON; MASS-WEIGHTED MEAN DIAMETER; MONSOON SEASON; NORTHEAST MONSOON; RAIN RATES; RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOUTHWEST MONSOON; WEIGHTED MEAN; WIND FIELD;

COALESCENCE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

RAIN;

DIURNAL VARIATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MONSOON; RAINDROP; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; GADANKI; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 70349601787     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.432     Document Type: Article

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