Scale effect on statistics of the macrophysical properties of trade wind cumuli over the tropical western Atlantic during RICO

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 24, 2008, Pages

  Dey, Sagnik ^a   Girolamo, Larry D ^a   Zhao, Guangyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PIXELS; RADIOMETRY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS;

ASTER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CUMULUS; DATA SET; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PIXEL; SIMULATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRADE WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 62149089121     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD010295     Document Type: Article

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