Altitude resolved ice-fraction in the uppermost tropical troposphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 2008, Pages

  Ekström, Mattias ^a   Eriksson, P ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MISSILE LAUNCHING SYSTEMS; NATURAL CONVECTION; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS; WATER VAPOR;

CLOUD ICE; CLOUDSAT; DEE P CONVECTION; ICE MASSES; LARGE REGIONS; LIMB SOUNDER; PRESSURE RANGES; SPATIAL PATTERNING; TROPICAL REGIONS; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYER; TROPICAL TROPOSPHERE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

ICE;

ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD WATER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 53749087535     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034305     Document Type: Article

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