Relationships between large-scale vertical velocity, static stability, and cloud radiative forcing over northern hemisphere extratropical oceans

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2871-2887

  Weaver, C P ^a   Ramanathan, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; STATIC ABILITY; STATIC STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH); PACIFIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0031429921     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<2871:RBLSVV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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