Moisture transport, lower-tropospheric stability, and decoupling of cloud-topped boundary layers

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 148-167

  Bretherton, Christopher S ^a   Wyant, Matthew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD TOP; CLOUDS; DECOUPLING; MIXED LAYER MODEL; MOISTURE TRANSFER; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0030660431     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<0148:MTLTSA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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