Coincident occurrences of tropical individual cirrus clouds and deep convective systems derived from TRMM observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Lin, Bing ^a   Xu, Kuan Man ^a   Minnis, Patrick ^a   Wielicki, Bruce A ^a   Hu, Yongxiang ^a   Chambers, Lin ^a   Fan, Tai Fang ^b   Sun, Wenbo ^c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; TROPOSPHERE;

DEEP CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; INDIVIDUAL CIRRUS CLOUDS; RADIATIVE FEEDBACK; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLOUDS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CIRRUS; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL REGION; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 34548591607     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029768     Document Type: Article

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