Characteristics of summer trade wind rainfall over oahu

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1797-1815

  Hartley, Treena Marie ^a,b   Chen, Yi Leng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Rainfall; Summer warm season; Wind

Indexed keywords

CLOUD DEVELOPMENT; COASTAL AREA; KATABATIC WINDS; LAND SURFACE; MAXIMUM CORRELATIONS; MOISTURE CONTENTS; MORNING RAINFALL; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; RAINFALL; SEA BREEZE; SMALL SIZE; SUMMER/WARM SEASON; TERRAIN HEIGHT; TRADE WINDS; TRADE-WIND CUMULUS; WIND FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COASTAL ZONES; COMMERCE; LANDFORMS; WIND;

RAIN;

COASTAL ZONE; KATABATIC FLOW; LAND BREEZE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEA BREEZE; SUMMER; TRADE WIND; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; OAHU; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955580826     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010WAF2222328.1     Document Type: Article

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