A reexamination of the Jordan mean tropical sounding based on awareness of the Saharan air layer: Results from 2002

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 5242-5253

  Dunion, Jason P ^a   Marron, Christopher S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; KINEMATICS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICS;

CARIBBEAN SEAS; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHTS; HURRICANE SEASONS; KINEMATIC STRUCTURES; MOISTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEANS; OCEANIC REGIONS; SAHARAN AIR LAYERS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL NORTH ATLANTIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR; HURRICANE; KINEMATICS; MOISTURE FLUX; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 56349151870     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI1868.1     Document Type: Article

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