Variability of mixed-layer heights over the Indian ocean and Central Arabian sea during Indoex, IFP-99

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 683-695

  Subrahamanyam, D Bala ^a   Ramachandran, Radhika ^a   Gupta, K Sen ^a   Mandal, Tuhin K ^b  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX); Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ); Lifting condensation level (LCL); Marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL); Mixed layer height; Ocean atmospheric interaction

Indexed keywords

AIR; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COASTAL ZONES; EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

UPPER AIR;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MIXED LAYER; REMOTE SENSING;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0038304340     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022811512160     Document Type: Article

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