Relationships between hourly rainfall intensity and atmospheric variables over the contiguous United States

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 3181-3197

  Lepore, Chiara ^a   Allen, John T ^b   Tippett, Michael K ^c,d  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Earth Institute   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Climatology; Geographic location entity; Mathematical and statistical techniques; Models and modeling; North America; Observational techniques and algorithms; Physical meteorology and climatology; Reanalysis data; Regression analysis; Surface observations; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; NORTH AMERICA; REANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SURFACE OBSERVATION;

RAIN;

CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84966340433     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0331.1     Document Type: Article

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