Statistical analyses of satellite cloud object data from CERES. Part IV: Boundary layer cloud objects during 1998 El Niño

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1500-1521

  Xu, Kuan Man ^a   Wong, Takmeng ^a   Wielicki, Bruce A ^a   Parker, Lindsay ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH; LIQUID WATER PATH; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION;

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD; SATELLITE DATA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRATOCUMULUS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 44449099611     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1710.1     Document Type: Article

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