Tropical oceanic cloudiness and the incidence of precipitation: Early results from cloudsat

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Haynes, John M ^a   Stephens, Graeme L ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPICS;

CLOUDINESS; CLOUDSAT; PRECIPITATING CLOUDS; TROPICAL OCEANS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLOUD COVER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 34347212090     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029335     Document Type: Article

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