Influence of the upper-tropospheric wind shear upon cloud radiative forcing in the Asian monsoon region

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2725-2735

  Sathiyamoorthy, V ^a   Pal, P K ^a   Joshi, P C ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DATA REDUCTION; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

CLOUD GROWTH; RADIATIVE FLUX; RADIATIVE FORCING; WIND SHEAR;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; OPTICAL DEPTH; WIND SHEAR;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 4043064162     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<2725:IOTUWS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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