Diurnal circulations and rainfall in taiwan during SoWMEX/TiMREX (2008)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3851-3872

  Ruppert, James H ^a   Johnson, Richard H ^a   Rowe, Angela K ^b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BUDGET; DEEP CONVECTION; DIURNAL CIRCULATION; INTENSE RAINFALLS; MOISTURE BUDGET; MONSOON RAINFALL; SOUTHWEST MONSOON; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BUDGET CONTROL; STORMS;

RAIN;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; KATABATIC FLOW; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; TROPOSPHERE; WESTERLY;

TAIWAN;

CITRUS MAXIMA;

EID: 84884237538     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00301.1     Document Type: Article

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