Regional characteristics of extreme rainfall extracted from TRMM PR measurements

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 8151-8169

  Hamada, Atsushi ^a   Murayama, Yuki ^b   Takayabu, Yukari N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Ministry of International Trade and Industry   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extreme events; Precipitation; Radars Radar observations; Satellite observations; Subtropics; Tropics

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN GAGES; STORMS; TROPICS;

EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; EXTREME EVENTS; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS; REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SUBTROPICS; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; EXTREME EVENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TRMM; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 84916211225     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00107.1     Document Type: Article

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