Why a large amount of rain falls over the sea in the vicinity of western Sumatra Island during nighttime

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1345-1361

  Wu, Peiming ^a   Hara, Masayuki ^a   Hamada, Jun Ichi ^a   Yamanaka, Manabu D ^a   Kimura, Fujio ^a,b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT DROPS; ANNUAL RAINFALL; COLD SURFACE; CONVECTIVE INHIBITION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; DIURNAL CHANGES; DIURNAL VARIATION; HEAVY RAINFALL; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; MODEL SIMULATION; MOUNTAINOUS AREA; MULTI-CELL CLUSTERS; OFFSHORE FLOWS; OFFSHORE WINDS; PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; RAINY SEASONS; REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION RESULT; SUMATRA; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMALLY INDUCED; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION SATELLITES; WIDE AREA;

LANDFORMS; SIMULATORS;

RAIN;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SIMULATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 70349675714     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAMC2052.1     Document Type: Article

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