The precipitation characteristics of isccp tropical weather states

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 772-788

  Lee, Dongmin ^a,b,c   Oreopoulos, Lazaros ^b   Huffman, George J ^d   Rossow, William B ^e   Kang, In Sik ^c  

^a University Space Research Associates   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^e CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Clouds; Convective clouds; Precipitation; Rainfall; Remote sensing; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DAILY DATUM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; HIGHER-ORDER; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; LARGE-SCALE MODELS; MEAN PRECIPITATION; OPERATIONAL PRODUCTS; PRECIPITATION CHARACTERISTICS; PRECIPITATION RATES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEASONAL SHIFTS; SURFACE PRECIPITATION; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; TROPICAL HYDROLOGIES; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; HURRICANE EFFECTS; LASERS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING;

TROPICS;

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DATA SET; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRMM;

EID: 84874807703     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00718.1     Document Type: Article

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