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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 248
Pub. Date
1976.
Description
Microwave brightness temperature data from the Nimbus 5 satellite have been analyzed, using threshold brightness temperatures, to yield tropical oceanic precipitation frequencies for several classes of rainfall rates during the season December 1972 to February 1973.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 297
Pub. Date
1978.
Description
Diagnostic moisture and static energy budgets for the GATE A/B scale area are performed at individual time periods using rawinsonde, radar and satellite data.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 299
Pub. Date
1978.
Description
The diurnal variation of mass divergence and vertical velocity is documented for tropical summertime oceanic weather systems in the Western Pacific, Western Atlantic and the GATE region. It is shown that this diurnal variation is very large and has the same basic character in all regions.