The Taiwan Area Mesoscale Experiment (TAMEX): An Overview

The Taiwan Area Mesoscale Experiment (TAMEX) is a research program conducted jointly by scientists of Taiwan, the Republic of China, and the United States to improve, through better understanding, the forecasting of heavy precipitation events that lead to flash floods. In order to achieve this objective the field phase of TAMEX was launched to collect the data necessary to study 1) the mesoscale circulation associated with the Mei-Yu front;