Anomalous scaling of high cloud variability in the tropical Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1095-1098

  Pierrehumbert, R T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS SCALING; CLOUDS; VARIABILITY;

PACIFIC, (TROPICAL);

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPICS; GEOPHYSICS;

ANOMALOUS SCALING; CLOUD VARIABILITY; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; POWER SPECTRUM; SATELLITE INFRARED MEASUREMENTS; TROPICAL PACIFIC; TURBULENT CONVECTING LAYER;

CLOUDS; EARTH SCIENCES;

ANOMALOUS SCALING; CLOUD VARIABILITY; CONVECTING LAYERS; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; PASSIVE SCALAR ADVECTION; SATELLITE INFRARED DATA; SPATIALLY SELF-SIMILAR; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION;

EID: 0029666515     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01121     Document Type: Article

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