Scale dependence of monsoonal convective systems over the Indian Ocean

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1286-1298

  Roca, Rémy ^a,b,c   Ramanathan, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFRARED IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INFRARED IMAGERY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MONSOONAL CONVECTIVE CLOUD; TROPOPAUSE TEMPERATURE;

CLOUDS;

CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MONSOON;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0034174283     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<1286:SDOMCS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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