Cloud and radiation budget changes associated with tropical intraseasonal oscillations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Spencer, Roy W ^a   Braswell, William D ^a   Christy, John R ^a   Hnilo, Justin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPOSPHERE;

INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE FLUX;

METEOROLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATION BUDGET; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34948817205     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029698     Document Type: Article

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