Precipitation and latent heating characteristics of the major tropical western Pacific cloud regimes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 4348-4364

  Jakob, Christian ^a   Schumacher, Courtney ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; HEATING; RAIN; RAIN GAGES;

CLOUD-TOP PRESSURE; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECT; OPTICAL THICKNESS; PRECIPITATION RADAR; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION; TROPICAL WESTERN PACIFIC;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CUMULUS; LATENT HEAT FLUX; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR IMAGERY;

EID: 53649107747     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2122.1     Document Type: Article

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