Vertical structure of tropical oceanic convective clouds and its relation to precipitation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Kubar, Terence L ^a   Hartmann, Dennis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIOMETERS; RAIN;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; RAIN RATE;

CLOUDS;

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 41849146067     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032811     Document Type: Article

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