The CHUVA project: How does convection vary across Brazil?

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1365-1380

  Machado, Luiz A T ^a   Silva Dias, Maria A F ^b   Morales, Carlos ^b   Fisch, Gilberto ^c   Vila, Daniel ^a   Albrecht, Rachel ^a   Goodman, Steven J ^d   Calheiros, Alan J P ^a   Biscaro, Thiago ^a   Kummerow, Christian ^e   Cohen, Julia ^f   Fitzjarrald, David ^g   Nascimento, Ernani L ^h   Sakamoto, Meiry S ⁱ   Cunningham, Christopher ^a   Chaboureau, Jean Pierre ^j   Petersen, Walter A ^k   Adams, David K ^l   Baldini, Luca ^m   Angelis, Carlos F ^a   Sapucci, Luiz F ^a   Salio, Paola ⁿ   Barbosa, Henrique M J ^b   Landulfo, Eduardo ^o   Souza, Rodrigo A F ^p   Blakeslee, Richard J ^q   Bailey, Jeffrey ^r   Freitas, Saulo ^a   Lima, Wagner F A ^a   Tokay, Ali ^s   more..

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO DE AERONÁUTICA E ESPAÇO   (Brazil)

^d GSFC   (United States)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^g STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^h FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

ⁱ Fund Cearense Meteorologia R   (Brazil)

^j UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^k NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^l UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^m CNR   (Italy)

ⁿ UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^o INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

^p UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^q NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; STORMS; WEB CRAWLER; WEBSITES;

CLOUD ELECTRIFICATION; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTY; PRECIPITATION REGIMES; PRECIPITATION RETRIEVALS; PRECIPITATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITE PRECIPITATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EID: 84899637722     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00084.1     Document Type: Article

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