Wind shear effects on cloud-radiation feedback in the western Pacific warm pool

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Lin, Jia Lin ^a   Mapes, Brian ^a  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; SATELLITES; WIND EFFECTS;

CLOUD RADIATIONS; DEEP CONVECTION; GLOBAL RADIATION; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION (OLR); WIND SHEAR EFFECTS;

TROPOSPHERE;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; STRATIFORM CLOUD; WARM POOL; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 7044222524     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020199     Document Type: Article

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