Differences in draft core statistics from the wet to dry spell over Gadanki, India (13.5°N, 79.2°E)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4293-4306

  Rao, T Narayana ^a   Uma, K N ^a   Satyanarayana, T Mohan ^a   Rao, D Narayana ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^c SRM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; CORE SIZE; DRY SPELLS; ELEVATION ANGLE; IN-CORE; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MESOSPHERE-STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE RADARS; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL CHARACTERISTICS; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL RATES; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL AIR VELOCITY; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; VERTICAL VARIATION; WET AND DRY;

ATMOSPHERICS; DROUGHT; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TROPOSPHERE;

CURING;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MESOSPHERE; MONSOON; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; UPDRAFT;

GADANKI; INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 74949112465     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3057.1     Document Type: Article

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