Large-scale atmospheric forcing by southeast Pacific boundary layer clouds: A regional model study

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 934-951

  Wang, Yuqing ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a,b   Wang, Bin ^a,b   Xu, Haiming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COOLING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; INVERSION LAYER; RADIATIVE EFFECTS;

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOUNDARY LAYER; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST); WORLD;

EID: 13844277289     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3302.1     Document Type: Article

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