The role of mesoscale convective complexes in southern Africa summer rainfall

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1654-1668

  Blamey, R C ^a   Reason, C J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Africa; Interannual variability; Mesoscale systems; Precipitation; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; EASTERN REGIONS; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MESO-SCALE SYSTEMS; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE COMPLEXES; MOZAMBIQUE; NAMIBIA; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTH AFRICA; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SUMMER RAINFALL; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; WARM SEASON RAINFALL;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LASERS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN GAGES;

RAIN;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRMM;

BOTSWANA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); MOZAMBIQUE; NAMIBIA;

EID: 84874803356     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00239.1     Document Type: Article

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