Climatology of upper-tropospheric relative humidity from the Atmosphere Infrared Sounder and implication for climate

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 6104-6121

  Gettelman, Andrew ^a   Collins, William D ^a   Fetzer, Eric J ^b   Eldering, Annmarie ^b   Irion, Fredrick W ^b   Duffy, Phillip B ^c   Bala, Govindasamy ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; STORMS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

BAROCLINIC STORMS; MONSOON CIRCULATION; SEASONAL OVERTURNING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATELLITE DATA; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 33846140140     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3956.1     Document Type: Article

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