A regional climatology of monsoonal precipitation in the Southwestern United States using TRMM

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 310-323

  Wall, Christina L ^a   Zipser, Edward J ^a   Liu, Chuntao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatology; Convection; Monsoons; North America; Remote sensing; Satellite observations; Topographic effects

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; REMOTE SENSING; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TRMM;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SIERRA MADRE; SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863352232     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-11-031.1     Document Type: Article

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