The relationship between anvil clouds and convective cells: A case study in South Florida during CRYSTAL-FACE

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3917-3932

  Rickenbach, Thomas ^a   Kucera, Paul ^b   Gentry, Megan ^c   Carey, Larry ^d   Lare, Andrew ^e   Lin, Ruei Fong ^f   Demoz, Belay ^g   Starr, David O'C ^g  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Keane Federal Systems   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; ICE; LIFE CYCLE; NASA; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCREENING; TROPICS;

AIRBORNE RADARS; CASE STUDIES; CIRRUS REGIONAL STUDY OF TROPICAL ANVILS AND CIRRUS LAYERS; CLOUD HEIGHTS; CLOUD PARTICLE SIZES; CLOUD PARTICLES; CLOUD SYSTEMS; CONVECTIVE CELLS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; FLORIDA AREA CIRRUS EXPERIMENTS; FUTURE WORKS; GROWTH MECHANISMS; IN-SITU; LEAD TIMES; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE; MODELING SIMULATIONS; PRECIPITATION EFFICIENCIES; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; SOUTH FLORIDA; SYSTEM CLOUDS; SYSTEM SIZES; TEMPERATURE THRESHOLDS; TIME LAGS; TROPICAL OCEANS;

TOOLS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIOSONDE; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57149142262     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2441.1     Document Type: Article

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