Investigating the mesoscale impact of artificial reservoirs on frequency of rain during growing season

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Degu, Ahmed M ^a   Hossain, Faisal ^a  

^a Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ARTIFICIAL RESERVOIRS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS DATA; CLIMATIC REGIONS; CONTROLLED PRECIPITATION; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; GLOBAL HISTORICAL CLIMATOLOGY NETWORK; GROWING SEASON; LAND COVER; LARGE DAMS; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; MESOSCALE; PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY; SUBTROPICAL CLIMATES; WIND DATA;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RAIN;

DAMS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATIC REGION; DAM CONSTRUCTION; DATA INTERPRETATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GROWING SEASON; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESERVOIR; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TREND ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861326659     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010966     Document Type: Article

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