Rainfall and radiative heating rates from TOGA COARE atmospheric budgets

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1497-1514

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

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COOLING; EVAPORATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RAIN; SENSORS;

ATMOSPHERIC BUDGETS; ATMOSPHERIC HEAT; INTENSIVE FLUX ARRAY; INTENSIVE OBSERVING PERIOD;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; HEAT BUDGET; RADIATIVE FORCING; RAINFALL; TOGA-COARE; WARM POOL;

EID: 0034194723     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<1497:RARHRF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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