The global distribution of largest, deepest, and most intense precipitation systems

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3591-3595

  Liu, Chuntao ^a   Zipser, Edward J ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

GPM; precipitation; radar; TRMM

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RAIN GAGES; SPACE APPLICATIONS; TROPICS;

CONVECTIVE INTENSITY; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MISSIONS; INTENSE PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION SYSTEMS; TRMM;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

CLIMATE MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 84930478892     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063776     Document Type: Article

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