A comparison of three prolonged periods of heavy rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 722-744

  Jayawardena, I M Shiromani ^a,c   Chen, Yi Leng ^a   Nash, Andrew J ^b,d   Kodama, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b National Weather Service   (United States)

^c Bauddhaloka Mawatha   (Sri Lanka)

^d National Weather Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Blocking; Extreme events; Flood events; Pacific North American pattern oscillation; Rainfall; Synoptic scale processes

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING; EXTREME EVENTS; FLOOD EVENT; PACIFIC-NORTH AMERICAN PATTERN/OSCILLATION; SYNOPTIC-SCALE PROCESSES;

MOISTURE; STORMS; TROPICS;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; HADLEY CELL; JET STREAM; RAINFALL; STORM; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WEATHER; ZONAL FLOW;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861741903     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0133.1     Document Type: Article

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