Cloud vertical structure and its variations from a 20-Yr global rawinsonde dataset

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 3041-3056

  Wang, J ^a   Rossow, W B ^a   Zhang, Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; STORMS; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD VERTICAL STRUCTURE; MEAN SEA LEVEL; MULTILAYERED CLOUD SYSTEM; RAWINSONDE DATASET;

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; HUMIDITY; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0034277376     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<3041:CVSAIV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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