Air mass motion, temperature, and humidity over the Arabian Sea and western Indian Ocean during the INDOEX intensive phase, as obtained from a set of superpressure drifting balloons

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 19, 2002, Pages

  Ethé, Christian ^a,e   Basdevant, Claude ^a,e   Sadourny, Robert ^a,e   Appu, K S ^b   Harenduprakash, L ^c   Sarode, P R ^d   Viswanathan, G ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^c NATIONAL CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTING   (India)

^d GOA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Climatology; INDOEX; Lagrangian dynamics; Temporal regimes; Trajectory models

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIR POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DIALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; WIND EFFECTS;

AIR MASS; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BALLOON OBSERVATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; METEOSAT; OROGRAPHY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TRAJECTORY; TROPOSPHERE;

ARABIAN SEA; ASIA; EURASIA; GOA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTH ASIA; WESTERN GHATS;

EID: 2442571779     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JD001120     Document Type: Article

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