The diabatic heat budget of the upper troposphere and lower/mid stratosphere in ECMWF reanalyses

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 638, 2009, Pages 21-37

  Fueglistaler, S ^a,d   Legras, B ^a   Beljaars, A ^b   Morcrette, J J ^b   Simmons, A ^b   Tompkins, A M ^c   Uppala, S ^c  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud radiative effects; Data assimilation; ERA 40; Tropical tropopause layer

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE PARAMETRIZATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DEEP CONVECTION; DIABATIC; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; ERA-40; HEAT BALANCE; HEAT BUDGET; LATENT HEAT EXCHANGES; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; RADIATIVE HEATING; TEMPERATURE INCREMENT; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; THERMODYNAMIC ENERGY; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYER; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS; TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERICS; BUDGET CONTROL; COOLING; DATA PROCESSING; MISSILE LAUNCHING SYSTEMS; RADIANT HEATING; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLEAR SKY; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONVECTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIABATIC PROCESS; HEAT BUDGET; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MIXING RATIO; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 67649427478     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.361     Document Type: Article

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