Basic modes of cumulus heating and drying observed during TOGA-COARE IOP

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 3117-3120

  Tung, Wen wen ^a   Lin, Chichung ^a   Chen, Baode ^a,b   Yanai, Michio ^a   Arakawa, Akio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS; TROPICS;

CUMULUS CLOUDS; EDDY FLUX; LATENT HEAT; ROTATED PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS (RPCA);

CLOUDS;

CUMULUS; HEAT TRANSFER;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033569058     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900607     Document Type: Article

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