Cloud structure anomalies over the tropical Pacific during the 1997/98 El Nino

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 4547-4550

  Cess, Robert D ^a   Zhang, Minghua ^a   Wang, Pi Huan ^b   Wielicki, Bruce A ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; SATELLITES; TROPICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUDGET CONTROL; NICKEL; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

ALTITUDES;

GEOPHYSICS; CLIMATE MODELS;

CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; EL NINO; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CLOUD VERTICAL STRUCTURE; EASTERN PACIFIC; RADIATION BUDGET; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN; WALKER CIRCULATION;

EID: 0035894823     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013750     Document Type: Article

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