Boundary layer depth, entrainment, and decoupling in the cloud-capped subtropical and tropical marine boundary layer

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 3576-3588

  Wood, Robert ^a   Bretherton, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; MARINE ENGINEERING; MICROWAVES; SATELLITES;

MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS (MBL); MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS);

CLOUDS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; ENTRAINMENT; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL REGION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); WORLD;

EID: 4143106206     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<3576:BLDEAD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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