Excitation of rainfall over the tropical western pacific

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2983-2994

  Li, Yanping ^a   Carbone, R E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITATION SIGNALS; LAPLACIAN VALUES; LAPLACIANS; MESOSCALE; MULTISCALES; RAINFALL DATA; TROPICAL WESTERN PACIFIC;

LAPLACE TRANSFORMS;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84867932241     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0245.1     Document Type: Article

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