Precipitation variability over the forest-to-nonforest transition in Southwestern Amazonia

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2368-2377

  Knox, Ryan ^a   Bisht, Gautam ^a   Wang, Jingfeng ^b   Bras, Rafael ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Land surface; Microwave observations; Precipitation; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

AMAZONIA; CUMULUS CONVECTION; EVENT-BASED; FOREST BORDERS; FOREST EDGE; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY; PRECIPITATION RADAR; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SHALLOW CUMULUS CLOUDS; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

CLOUDS; DEFORESTATION; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

RAIN GAGES;

CONVECTION; CUMULUS; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MODIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CONVECTION; DEFORESTATION; FORESTS; PRECIPITATION; RAIN;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 79958122322     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3815.1     Document Type: Article

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