Tropical convective outflow and near surface equivalent potential temperatures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 2549-2552

  Folkins, Ian ^a   Oltmans, Samuel J ^b   Thompson, Anne M ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

AIR PARCELS; CLEAR SKY; NEAR SURFACES; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SUB CLOUDS; TROPICAL TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL VARIATION;

TROPICS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLEAR SKY HEATING RATES; NEAR SURFACE AIR PARCELS; PSEUDO EQUIVALENT POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; RADIATIVE COOLING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; TROPICAL CONVECTIVE OUTFLOW;

EID: 0034352688     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011524     Document Type: Article

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