A diagnostic study on interactions between atmospheric thermodynamic structure and cumulus convection over the tropical western Pacific Ocean and over the Indochina Peninsula

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 84, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 151-169

  Takayabu, Yukari N ^a   Yokomori, Jun'ichi ^a   Yoneyama, Kunio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 33748443582     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.84A.151     Document Type: Article

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