The interannual stability of cumulative frequency distributions for convective system size and intensity

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 5218-5231

  Mohr, Karen I ^a,b   Molinari, John ^a   Thorncroft, Chris D ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; CONVECTIVE EVENTS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; CUMULATIVE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; OCEANIC ENVIRONMENTS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; WEST AFRICA; WESTERN PACIFIC; WET SEASON;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; TEMPERATURE; TROPICS; WIND EFFECTS;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATABASE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; PIXEL; PROBABILITY; SATELLITE DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); WEST AFRICA;

EID: 76649084235     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2940.1     Document Type: Article

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