Statistical analyses of satellite cloud object data from CERES. Part II: Tropical convective cloud objects during 1998 El Niño and evidence for supporting the fixed anvil temperature hypothesis

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 819-842

  Xu, Kuan Man ^a   Wong, Takmeng ^a   Wielicki, Bruce A ^a   Parker, Lindsay ^b   Lin, Bing ^a   Eitzen, Zachary A ^b   Branson, Mark ^c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE; STATISTICAL METHODS; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SINGLE SCANNER FOOTPRINT (SSF); TROPICAL DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUD OBJECTS;

CLOUDS;

ALBEDO; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; LONGWAVE RADIATION; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 33947403250     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4069.1     Document Type: Article

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