The westerly wind pattern of the upper-level jet given in Figs. Natural resources include coal, petroleum, lead, tungsten, zinc, graphite, magnesite, iron ore, copper, gold, pyrites, salt, fluorspar and hydropower. In contrast, the warm type shows very different features to those found in the cold type, that is, asymmetric θe and RH distributions, much weaker vertical gradients of both θe and RH compared with the cold-type, and lower θe in the boundary layer.

Composite distributions of synoptic fields for the (left) cold-type and (right) warm-type heavy rainfall over the Korean peninsula (black rectangle): (a),(b) divergence (10−6 s−1, color scales given in the right), geopotential height (gpm, solid lines), and horizontal wind (m s−1, arrows) on the 200-hPa level. 1989). Type-1 and type-2 heavy rainfall patterns and their geographical locations largely represent continental and oceanic types, respectively. Some 80 percent of North Korea's land area is composed of mountains and uplands, with all of the peninsula's mountains with elevations of 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) or more located in North Korea. Most of North Korea is a series of medium-sized to large-sized mountain ranges and large hills, separated by deep, narrow valleys. However, this similarity does not undermine the value of this study, which has classified rain types in relation to providing an explanation for most of the types over the whole analysis domain. During the economic crisis of the 1990s, deforestation accelerated, as people turned to the woodlands to provide firewood and food. In East Asia, a significant difference between land (the southeastern part of China) and ocean (the northwestern part of the Pacific including Korea and Japan) rain has been noted (Fu and Liu 2003): convective rain over land is interlinked with a deeper layer and a stronger scattering signal in PCT85 than over the ocean for the same rain rate. 9 are incorporated with the evolution of CAPE, TPW, and ConQ (Fig. Overall the warm-type process appears to link the low-level moisture convergence area to the vertically aligned divergence area formed over the jet stream level. Also of note is the continuous maintenance of such a vertical distribution even after the zero hour, because it may suggest a longer duration of rainfall. At a first glance, the composite patterns of upper-level divergence, 500-hPa p velocity, and lower-level moisture convergence appear to be similar to the evolutionary features shown in TB11 for the cold and warm types (Fig. In contrast, the cold type has much smaller mesoscale features that might not easily be detected by the synoptic-scale composite. The coastal plains are wide in the west and discontinuous in the east. North Korea's longest river is the Yulu (Yalu). However, when the accuracy of TRMM TMI rain estimates was suspected, efforts were then made to understand why degradation occurs over the Korean peninsula. Lucas et al. Such vertically aligned convergence and divergence, therefore, effectively transfer water vapor upward; the converged water vapor and air mass follow the vertical motion created by low-level convergence and upper-level divergence while air in the lower layer that is already much more humid (shown in the relative humidity profile of Fig. Part I: Improved method and uncertainties, Two types of precipitation particle distribution in convective cells accompanying a Baiu frontal rainband around Okinawa Island, Japan, Raindrop size distribution parameters estimated from polarimetric radar variables in convective cells around Okinawa Island during the Baiu period, Tropical climate described as a distribution of weather states indicated by distinct mesoscale cloud property mixtures, Rain rate characteristics over the Korean peninsula and improvement of the Goddard Profiling (GPROF) database for TMI rainfall retrievals, Ice cloud content from radar reflectivity, Improvement of TMI rain retrievals in mountainous areas, Catastrophic rainfall from an upslope thunderstorm in the central Appalachians: The Rapidan storm of June 27, 1995, Catastrophic rainfall and flooding in Texas, Use of satellite-derived water vapor data to investigate northwestward expansion of North Pacific subtropical high during 1995 summer, Validation of satellite-based high-resolution rainfall products over the Korean peninsula using data from a dense rain gauge network, Characteristic features of warm-type rain producing heavy rainfall over the Korean peninsula inferred from TRMM measurements, Precipitation retrieval over land and ocean with the SSM/I. Hangul, the Korean alphabet, depicted with pronunciation guide. It also claims an exclusive economic zone 200 nautical miles (370.4 km; 230.2 mi) from shore. While the area given in the (left) represents the rain area of a 5° × 5° grid box, but averaged over the entire domain. In contrast, type 2 shows a sharply dropping storm height pattern with a mode of around 7 km, resulting in a much smaller percentage of storm heights greater than 10 km in comparison to type 1.