Importance of rain evaporation and continental convection in the tropical water cycle

Nature

Volumn 445, Issue 7127, 2007, Pages 528-532

  Worden, John ^a   Noone, David ^b   Bowman, Kevin ^a   Beer, Reinhard ^a   Eldering, Annmarie ^a   Fisher, Brendan ^a   Gunson, Michael ^a   Goldman, Aaron ^c   Herman, Robert ^a   Kulawik, Susan S ^a   Lampel, Michael ^d   Osterman, Gregory ^a   Rinsland, Curtis ^e   Rodgers, Clive ^f   Sander, Stanley ^a   Shephard, Mark ^g   Webster, Christopher R ^a   Worden, Helen ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^d RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^e NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN; WATER;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; EVAPORATION; HUMIDITY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL REGION; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLOUD; EVAPORATION; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; HUMIDITY; HYDROLOGY; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 33846650804     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05508     Document Type: Article

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