Ten-year climatology of summertime diurnal rainfall rate over the conterminous U.S.

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Matsui, Toshihisa ^a,b   Mocko, David ^a,c   Lee, Myong In ^d   Tao, Wei Kuo ^a   Suarez, Max J ^a   Pielke, Roger A ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; DIURNAL CYCLE; DIURNAL RAINFALL; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; PHASE SPEED; PROPAGATION SPEED; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL RATES;

RAIN;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATOLOGY; DIURNAL VARIATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

GREAT PLAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954672771     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044139     Document Type: Article

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