Moisture transport associated with the summertime North American monsoon.

The origins and transport of water vapor into the semi-arid Sonoran Desert region of southwestern North America are examined for the July-August wet season. Vertically-integrated fluxes and flux divergences of water vapor are computed for the 8 summers, 1985-1992, from ECMWF mandatory-level analyses...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schmitz, Jeffrey Todd.
Other Authors: Mullen, Steven L.
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 1995
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187277