Atmospheric latent heating distributions in the tropics derived from satellite passive microwave radiometer measurements

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 633-664

  Olson, William S ^a,d   Kummerow, Christian D ^b   Hong, Ye ^c   Tao, Wei Kuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Caelum Research Corporation   (United States)

^d NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATENT HEAT FLUX; REMOTE SENSING; SSM-I; TOGA-COARE; WARMING;

EID: 0032740477     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1999)038<0633:ALHDIT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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