Investigation of microphysical processes occurring in isolated convection during NAME

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 424-443

  Rowe, Angela K ^a   Rutledge, Steven A ^a   Lang, Timothy J ^a  

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

Author keywords

Convection; Field experiments; Hydrometeorology; Monsoons; Radars radar observations

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MONSOONS; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; COALESCENCE; DOPPLER RADAR; HYDROLOGY; ICE; LANDFORMS; MELTING; METEOROLOGY; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RAIN;

EXPERIMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DOPPLER RADAR; FIELD METHOD; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MONSOON;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SIERRA MADRE; SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL;

EID: 79953191149     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3494.1     Document Type: Article

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