Climatology of warm rain and associated latent heating derived from TRMM PR observations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 4908-4929

  Kodama, Yasu Masa ^a   Katsumata, Masaki ^b   Mori, Shuichi ^b   Satoh, Sinsuke ^c   Hirose, Yuki ^d   Ueda, Hiroaki ^d  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CONVERGENCE ZONES; DATA SETS; FRONTAL ZONES; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LARGE-SCALE DISTRIBUTION; LOWER ATMOSPHERE; MELTING LAYERS; MIDLATITUDES; MOISTURE FLOW; MOISTURE FLUXES; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; RAIN EVENTS; RAINFALL INTENSITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTH PACIFIC CONVERGENCE ZONES; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; STRATIFORM CLOUDS; SUBTROPICAL CONVERGENCE; SUBTROPICAL OCEAN; TOTAL RAINFALL; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION PRECIPITATION RADARS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; COASTAL ZONES; HEATING; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN GAGES; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; TROPICS;

RAIN;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD COVER; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DATA SET; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 70350002164     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2575.1     Document Type: Article

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