Tropical rainfall and boundary layer moist entropy

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1807-1820

  Folkins, Ian ^a   Braun, Christopher ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENTROPY; HEAT CONVECTION; WIND;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

RAIN;

BOUNDARY LAYER; ENTROPY; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0037669662     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<1807:TRABLM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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