Temporal relations of column water vapor and tropical precipitation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1091-1105

  Holloway, Christopher E ^a   Neelin, J David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; LIQUID WATER; MESOSCALE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPORAL RELATION; TIME PERIODS; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION;

MICROWAVE DEVICES; WATER VAPOR;

PROBABILITY;

AUTOCORRELATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GAUGE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; RADIOSONDE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WATER COLUMN;

NAURU;

EID: 77953335627     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3284.1     Document Type: Article

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