Corrected TOGA COARE sounding humidity data: Impact on diagnosed properties of convection and climate over the warm pool

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 2370-2384

  Ciesielski, Paul E ^a   Johnson, Richard H ^a   Haertel, Patrick T ^b   Wang, Junhong ^c  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR CORRECTION; RAIN; TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

MASS FLUX;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; CONVECTION; HUMIDITY; TOGA-COARE; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0041387508     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2790.1     Document Type: Article

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