Climatological features of global multiple tropopause events

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Añel, Juan A ^a,b   Antuña, Juan C ^c   De La Torre, Laura ^a,b   Castanheira, José M ^a   Gimeno, Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c Estación Lidar de Camagüey   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; RADIOSONDES; TELLURIC PROSPECTING;

CYCLOGENESIS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATIONS; GLOBAL STATISTICS; LAPSE RATE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RADIOSONDE DATA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VERTICAL SEPARATION;

CLOUDS;

CLIMATOLOGY; CYCLOGENESIS; DATA SET; DATABASE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RADIOSONDE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 67649112762     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD009697     Document Type: Article

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