Relationships of upper tropospheric water vapor, clouds and SST: MLS observations, ECMWF analyses and GCM simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2006, Pages

  Su, Hui ^a   Waliser, Duane E ^a   Jiang, Jonathan H ^a   Li, Jui Lin ^a   Read, William G ^a   Waters, Joe W ^a   Tompkins, Adrian M ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERE-OCAN COUPLED MODELS; CLOUD ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPPER TROPOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR (UTWV);

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLOUD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 34548558761     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027582     Document Type: Article

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