Toward a global climatology of severe hailstorms as estimated by satellite passive microwave imagers

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 687-703

  Cecil, Daniel J ^a   Blankenship, Clay B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective storms; Deep convection; Hail; Severe storms

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; ARGENTINA; ASIAN MONSOON; BANGLADESH; CENTRAL AFRICA; CONVECTIVE STORMS; DATA COLLECTION; DEEP CONVECTION; DIURNAL VARIABILITY; EASTERN INDIA; EASTERN SIDE; GLOBAL CLIMATOLOGY; GROUND BASED; MONSOON ONSET; PAKISTAN; PARAGUAY; PROMINENT REGION; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE PASSIVE MICROWAVE; SEASONALITY; SEVERE STORMS; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEASTERN AFRICA; SUBTROPICAL OCEAN; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPICS;

STORMS;

AMSR-E; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATOLOGY; DIURNAL VARIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HAIL; ICE STORM; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEVERE WEATHER; TRMM;

ARGENTINA; BANGLADESH; CENTRAL AFRICA; INDIA; PAKISTAN; PARAGUAY; UNITED STATES; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84856958939     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00130.1     Document Type: Article

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