Spectral retrieval of latent heating profiles from TRMM PR data. Part III: Estimating apparent moisture sink profiles over tropical oceans

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 620-640

  Shige, Shoichi ^a   Takayabu, Yukari N ^b,d,e   Tao, Wei Kuo ^c  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d Institute of Observational Research for Global Change   (Japan)

^e Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; HEATING; MOISTURE; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; TROPICS; WATER VAPOR;

ATLANTIC OCEANS; CONSISTENCY CHECKS; HEAT SOURCES; HEATING PROFILES; KEY FEATURES; LOOK-UP TABLES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PACIFIC OCEANS; PRECIPITATION RADARS; SIMULATED PROFILES; SOUTH CHINA SEA MONSOON EXPERIMENTS; TROPICAL CLOUDS; TROPICAL OCEANS; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; VERTICAL PROFILES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD COVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAT BUDGET; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MOISTURE CONTENT; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TOGA-COARE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WATER VAPOR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 57649223841     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1738.1     Document Type: Article

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