Biogeography of tropical montane cloud forests. Part II: Mapping of orographic cloud immersion

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2183-2197

  Nair, Udaysankar S ^a   Asefi, Salvi ^a   Welch, Ronald M ^a   Ray, D K ^b   Lawton, Robert O ^a   Manoharan, Vani Starry ^a   Mulligan, Mark ^c   Sever, Tom L ^d   Irwin, Daniel ^d   Pounds, J Alan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve ^*  (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; CARIBBEAN SEAS; CLOUD PRODUCTS; CONNECTED REGIONS; COSTA RICA; MODEL OUTPUTS; MODIS DATUMS; MOUNTAIN SLOPES; NEW ALGORITHMS; NICARAGUA; OROGRAPHIC CLOUDS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF; TRADE WINDS; TROPICAL MONTANE CLOUD FORESTS; UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME;

MAPPING;

ALGORITHM; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLOUD; CLOUD FOREST; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; MAPPING; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRADE WIND; TROPICAL FOREST; UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; NICARAGUA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 57649186768     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1819.1     Document Type: Article

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