An assessment of the tropical humidity-temperature covariance using AIRS

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Gambacorta, Antonia ^a,b   Barnet, C ^c   Soden, B ^d   Strow, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b Perot Systems Government Services   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; SOUNDING APPARATUS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; CIRCULATION MODELS; LOCAL COVARIANCES; NEGATIVE CORRELATIONS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SPATIAL GRADIENTS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TROPICAL HUMIDITIES; TROPICAL TROPOSPHERES; UPPER TROPOSPHERES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NOAA SATELLITE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 58049088800     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033805     Document Type: Article

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