Factors responsible for the vertical development of tropical oceanic cumulus convection

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Takemi, Tetsuya ^a   Hirayama, Osamu ^a   Liu, Changhai ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

TROPICAL CUMULUS CONVECTION; TROPOSPHERIC MOISTURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CUMULUS; HEIGHT; MOISTURE CONTENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 4143061492     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020225     Document Type: Article

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