Observations of diurnal and spatial variability of radiative forcing by equatorial deep convective clouds

Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Nowicki, Sophie M J ^a   Merchant, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convection; Diurnal cycle; Radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 4143058165     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JD004176     Document Type: Article

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