Diurnal cycle of convection during the 2004 North American monsoon experiment

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1060-1078

  Johnson, Richard H ^a   Ciesielski, Paul E ^a   L'ecuyer, Tristan S ^a   Newman, Andrew J ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; DATA SETS; DEEP CONVECTION; DIURNAL CYCLE; EVOLUTION OF PRECIPITATION; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; HEAT SOURCES; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; ME-XICO; MODEL DATA; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; NORTH AMERICAN MONSOON EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMAL ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE HEATING; RETURN FLOW; SEA BREEZE; SHALLOW CONVECTION; SLOPE FLOW; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION; SUMMER MONSOON; TEMPORAL SCALE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; UPSLOPE FLOWS; WIND PROFILER;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; HEATING RATE; RADIANT HEATING; RAIN; TROPOSPHERE;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA SET; DIURNAL VARIATION; LAND BREEZE; MONSOON; SEA BREEZE; TROPOSPHERE;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC OCEAN; SIERRA MADRE; SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL;

EID: 77953675015     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3275.1     Document Type: Article

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