Mechanism of orographic precipitation around the meghalaya plateau associated with intraseasonal oscillation and the diurnal cycle

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2451-2466

  Sato, Tomonori ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; NOCTURNAL LOW-LEVEL JETS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; VERTICAL STRATIFICATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DIURNAL VARIATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIA; MEGHALAYA;

EID: 84880714223     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00321.1     Document Type: Article

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