Stratiform cloud - Inversion characterization during the arctic melt season

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 455-474

  Sedlar, Joseph ^a   Tjernström, Michael ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arctic; Doppler radar moments; Inversion; Microphysics; Stratocumulus

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; ARCTIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ARCTIC OCEAN; INVERSION; INVERSION LAYER; LOW-LEVEL CLOUDS; LOW-LEVEL STRATIFORM CLOUDS; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MICROPHYSICS; MIXED-PHASE CLOUD; RADIATIVE COOLING; RADIOSONDE DATAS; REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTS; SINGLE-PHASE LIQUIDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRATIFORM CLOUDS; STRATOCUMULUS; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; TURBULENT MIXING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; COCHANNEL INTERFERENCE; DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

CLOUDS;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DOPPLER RADAR; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; REMOTE SENSING; STRATIFORM CLOUD; STRATOCUMULUS; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT MIXING;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 69049092595     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-009-9407-1     Document Type: Article

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