The interaction of clouds and dry air in the eastern tropical Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 4531-4544

  Zuidema, Paquita ^a   Mapes, Brian ^a   Lin, Jialin ^b   Fairall, Chris ^c   Wick, Gary ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD RADAR; DRY AIR; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE;

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN GAGES; SUBLIMATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ADVECTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; RADAR; THERMOCLINE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 33749621375     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3836.1     Document Type: Article

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