GNSS observations of deep convective time scales in the Amazon

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2818-2823

  Adams, D K ^a,c   Gutman, Seth I ^b   Holub, Kirk L ^b   Pereira, Dulcineide S ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

convection; GNSS; GPS; tropical meteorology; water vapor

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC TIME; CONVECTIVE INTENSITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GNSS; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; NAVIGATIONAL SATELLITES; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HEAT CONVECTION; METEOROLOGY; NATURAL CONVECTION; TROPICS; WATER VAPOR;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GNSS; GPS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WATER VAPOR;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; MANAUS;

EID: 84879920537     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50573     Document Type: Article

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