Further evidences of deep convective vertical transport of water vapor through the tropopause

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 400-408

  Wang, Pao K ^a   Setvák, Martin ^b   Lyons, Walter ^c   Schmid, Willi ^d   Lin, Hsin Mu ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CHMI   (Czech Republic)

^c FMA Research Incorporated   (United States)

^d Meteoradar gmbh ^*  (Switzerland)

^e U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective transport; Deep convective storms; Jumping cirrus; Storm top plumes; Stratospheric water vapor

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MODELS; CONVECTIVE TRANSPORT; DEEP CONVECTION; DEEP CONVECTIVE STORMS; FIELD CAMPAIGN; GRAVITY-WAVE BREAKING; HIGHER RESOLUTION; JUMPING CIRRUS; LOWER RESOLUTION; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; POLAR-ORBITING SATELLITES; SATELLITE IMAGES; STRATOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; TRANSPORT MECHANISM; VERTICAL MOTIONS; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; NATURAL CONVECTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; THUNDERSTORMS; TROPOSPHERE; WAVES;

WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; AVHRR; CIRRUS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GRAVITY WAVE; MODIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRATOSPHERE; THUNDERSTORM; TROPOPAUSE; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; WATER VAPOR; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 70349411532     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.06.018     Document Type: Article

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