Diurnal variation of rainfall in the Yangtze River Valley during the spring-summer transition from TRMM measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Guixing ^a   Sha, Weiming ^a   Iwasaki, Toshiki ^a   Ueno, Kenichi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN GAGES;

DIURNAL RAINFALL; DIURNAL VARIATION; LOCAL PHASE; LOCAL SHIFTS; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MORNING RAINFALL; RAIN EVENTS; RAIN RATES; SEASONAL CHANGES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; WIND VECTORS; YANGTZE RIVER;

RAIN;

CONVERGENCE; DIURNAL VARIATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MOISTURE TRANSFER; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SLOPE; TRMM;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YANGTZE VALLEY;

EID: 84859467045     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD017056     Document Type: Article

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