Diurnal characteristics of rainfall over the contiguous United States and northern Mexico in the dynamically downscaled reanalysis dataset (US10)

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1142-1148

  Yamada, Tomohito J ^a   Lee, Myong In ^b   Kanamitsu, Masao ^c   Kanamaru, Hideki ^d  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climatology; Diurnal effects; Regional models

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA SET; DIURNAL VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

GREAT PLAINS; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864755157     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-11-0121.1     Document Type: Article

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