Large-scale heat and moisture budgets over the ASTEX region

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 3241-3261

  Ciesielski, Paul E ^a   Schubert, Wayne H ^a   Johnson, Richard H ^a  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; MOISTURE; WIND;

RAWINSONDE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLOUDS;

CONVECTION; HEAT BUDGET; MOISTURE TRANSFER; STRATOCUMULUS;

EID: 0033567563     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<3241:LSHAMB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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