Convective damping of buoyancy anomalies and its effect on lapse rates in the tropical lower troposphere

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-12

  Folkins, Ian ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC LAPSE RATE; ANOMALY; BUOYANCY; CONVECTION; DAMPING; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 33144466688     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-6-1-2006     Document Type: Article

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