Buoyancy of convective clouds in TOGA COARE

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 3381-3391

  Wei, Dingying ^a   Blyth, Alan M ^a   Raymond, David J ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUOYANCY; RADIOMETERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WATER; WETTING;

CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; OPHIR RADIOMETER;

CLOUDS;

BUOYANCY; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; TOGA-COARE;

EID: 0001146106     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<3381:BOCCIT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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