6 13 1 GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 37 Matsui, Toshihisa Mocko, David Lee, Myong-In Tao, Wei-Kuo Suarez, Max J. Pielke, Roger A. 2023-12-22T07:07:19Z 2023-12-22T07:07:19Z 2013-07-05 2010-07 Diurnal cycles of summertime rainfall rates are examined over the conterminous United States, using radar-gauge assimilated hourly rainfall data. As in earlier studies, rainfall diurnal composites show a well-defined region of rainfall propagation over the Great Plains and an afternoon maximum area over the south and eastern portion of the United States. Using Hovmoller diagrams, zonal phase speeds of diurnal composite rainfall are estimated in three different small domains, and are evaluated with background meteorological conditions. These rainfall propagation speeds are better linked to the convective available potential energy than to the boundary-layer dryness. TRUE scie scopus Made available in DSpace on 2023-12-22T07:07:19Z (KST). No. of bitstreams: 0 GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, v.37, no.13, pp.1 - 6 10.1029/2010GL044139 0094-8276 881 2-s2.0-77954672771 000279824000007 영어 AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION Geology Geosciences, Multidisciplinary Ten-year climatology of summertime diurnal rainfall rate over the conterminous U.S. Article