Altitudinal precipitation gradients in the tropics from tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM) precipitation radar

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 441-448

  Anders, Alison M ^a   Nesbitt, Stephen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatology; Complex terrain; Satellite observations; Tropics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPLEX TERRAIN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; TRMM; TROPICAL REGION;

EID: 84922947513     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0178.1     Document Type: Article

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