Tropical cloud heating profiles: Analysis from KWAJEX

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4289-4300

  Schumacher, Courtney ^a   Ciesielski, Paul E ^b   Zhang, Minghua H ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; HEATING; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; TROPOSPHERE;

CLOUD OBSERVATIONS; CLOUD TYPES; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CUMULUS CLOUDS; CUMULUS CONGESTUS CLOUDS; DIABATIC HEATING; HEATING PROFILES; KWAJALEIN EXPERIMENTS; RAIN RATES; TROPICAL CLOUDS; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; UPPER TROPOSPHERES;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CUMULONIMBUS; CUMULUS; DIABATIC PROCESS; HEATING; MOISTURE; RAINFALL; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 57149130986     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2275.1     Document Type: Article

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