Atmospheric manifestation of tropical instability wave observed by QuikSCAT and tropical rain measuring mission

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 2545-2548

  Liu, W Timothy ^a   Xie, Xiaosu ^a   Polito, Paulo S ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^b   Hashizume, Hiroshi ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; INSTABILITY; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; PACIFIC EQUATORIAL COLD TONGUE; PHASE DIFFERENCES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPACEBORNE MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS; TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVE; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; PHASE DIFFERENCE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SPACE-BORNE MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS; THERMAL FEEDBACK; TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES; TROPICAL RAIN; VERTICAL WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; BANDPASS FILTERS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; WATER WAVES;

WIND; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 0034352687     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011545     Document Type: Article

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