Bimodality in tropical water vapour

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 129, Issue 594 PART A, 2003, Pages 2847-2866

  Zhang, Chidong ^a   Mapes, Brian E ^b   Soden, Brian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Humidity; Mixing; Probability distribution function

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SATELLITES; TROPOSPHERE;

BIMODALITY;

METEOROLOGY;

BIMODAL ASSOCIATION; HUMIDITY; MIXING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0142216006     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/003590003769682075     Document Type: Article

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