Tropical cold point tropopause characteristics derived from ECMWF reanalyses and soundings

Journal of Climate

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1823-1838

  Zhou, X ^a   Geller, M A ^a   Zhang, M ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WATER;

COLD POINT;

CLIMATOLOGY;

COLD AIR; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TOGA-COARE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOPAUSE;

(WEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035870114     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<1823:TCPTCD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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