Cirrus clouds and deep convection in the tropics: Insights from CALIPSO and CloudSat

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Sassen, Kenneth ^a   Wang, Zhien ^b   Liu, Dong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; TROPICS;

CALIPSO; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLOUD IDENTIFICATION; CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH; CLOUD RADAR; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; CLOUDSAT; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DATA SETS; DEEP CONVECTION; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DIURNAL PATTERN; DIURNAL VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATING CLOUDS; SIGNAL NOISE; SUBVISUAL; TRANSITIONAL LAYERS; TROPICAL CIRRUS;

CLOUDS;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CALIPSO; CIRRUS; DATA SET; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LIDAR; SATELLITE DATA; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOPAUSE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 72049131794     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD011916     Document Type: Article

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