Life cycle of deep convective systems over the eastern tropical pacific observed by TRMM and GOES-W

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 87 A, Issue , 2009, Pages 381-391

  Inoue, Toshiro ^a,b   Vila, Daniel ^c   Rajendran, Kavirajan ^d   Hamada, Atsushi ^e   Wu, Xiangqian ^f   Machado, Luiz A T ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation   (India)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GOES; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPLIT WINDOW;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 71549157492     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.87A.381     Document Type: Article

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