Raindrop size distribution and radar parameters in coastal tropical rain systems of northeastern Brazil

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1960-1970

  Tenório, Ricardo Sarmento ^a   Moraes, Marcia cristina da silva ^b   Sauvageot, Henri ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINA GRANDE   (Brazil)

^c LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

Coastal meteorology; Parameterization; Radars Radar observations; Rainfall; South America; Tropics

Indexed keywords

COASTAL AREA; COASTAL SITES; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CONDITIONAL RAIN; DATA SETS; DIRECTION OF MOTION; DROP DIAMETERS; NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL; RADAR REFLECTIVITY FACTOR; RAIN RATES; RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL SYSTEMS; SOUTH AMERICA; TROPICAL RAIN SYSTEMS;

DROPS; PARAMETERIZATION; RADAR; SET THEORY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TROPICS;

RAIN;

COASTAL ZONE; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINDROP; RAINFALL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

ALAGOAS; BRAZIL;

EID: 84872142645     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0121.1     Document Type: Article

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