A possible mechanism responsible for exceptional rainfall over Taiwan from Typhoon Morakot

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 294-299

  Xu, Xiangde ^a   Lu, C ^b   Xu, Hongxiong ^c   Chen, Lianshou ^a  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Binary typhoon vortices (BTV); Tropical cyclone precipitation; Typhoon Morakot

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

TAIWAN;

EID: 79960477256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.338     Document Type: Article

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