Five-year climatology of midtroposphere dry air layers in warm tropical ocean regions as viewed by AIRS/Aqua

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1831-1842

  Casey, Sean P F ^a   Dessler, Andrew E ^a   Schumacher, Courtney ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUA SATELLITES; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; BACK TRAJECTORIES; DRY AIR; INDIAN MONSOON; MIDTROPOSPHERE; OCEAN BASINS; PACIFIC OCEAN; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; TROPICAL OCEAN; TROPICAL WESTERN PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATOLOGY; DEHYDRATION; DEWATERING; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; LOCATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOUNDING APPARATUS; TROPICS;

CURING;

CLIMATOLOGY; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE; WARM POOL;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 77649131391     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAMC2099.1     Document Type: Article

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