Development and application of topographic descriptors for conditional analysis of rainfall

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 177-184

  Ferranti, Emma Jayne Sakamoto ^a   Whyatt, James Duncan ^a   Timmis, Roger James ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cumbria; GIS; Rainshadow; Uplands

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; UPLAND REGION;

CUMBRIA; ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77949337384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.228     Document Type: Article

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