A modeling study of diurnal rainfall variations during the 21-day period of TOGA COARE

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 895-905

  Gao, Shouting ^a   Cui, Xiaopeng ^a   Li, Xiaofan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving simulation; Diurnal rainfall variation; TOGA COARE; Tropical oceanic convection

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849093540     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-8123-6     Document Type: Article

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