Spatial variability of the background diurnal cycle of deep convection around the GoAmazon2014/5 field campaign sites

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1579-1598

  Burleyson, Casey D ^a   Feng, Zhe ^a   Hagos, Samson M ^a   Fast, Jerome ^a   Machado, Luiz A T ^b   Martin, Scot T ^c  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic effects; Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Climatology; Geographic location entity; Mesoscale processes; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Precipitation; Sea breezes; South America

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; NATURAL CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RIVERS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; MESOSCALE PROCESS; SEA BREEZE; SOUTH AMERICA;

RAIN;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATOLOGY; DIURNAL VARIATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA BREEZE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; MANAUS; RIO NEGRO [SOUTH AMERICA];

EID: 84996504190     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0229.1     Document Type: Article

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