Mesoscale analysis of heavy rainfall episodes from SoWMEX/TiMREX

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 521-537

  Davis, Christopher A ^a   Lee, Wen Chau ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal flows; Convection; Mesoscale processes

Indexed keywords

CLOUDY CONDITIONS; COASTAL FLOW; COASTAL FRONTS; FEATURE CONTRASTS; HEAVY RAINFALL; HIGHER LATITUDES; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE PROCESS; MESOSCALE STRUCTURE; MOIST CONDITIONS; SOUTHWEST MONSOON; VIRTUAL TEMPERATURE;

EXPERIMENTS; HEAT CONVECTION;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC FRONT; DIURNAL VARIATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84863168719     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0120.1     Document Type: Article

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