Cloud variability over the Indian monsoon region as observed from satellites

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1803-1821

  Wonsick, Margaret M ^a   Pinker, Rachel T ^a   Govaerts, Yves ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b EUMETSAT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIAN SEA; ASIAN MONSOON; BAY OF BENGAL; CENTRAL INDIA; CLOUD AMOUNT; CLOUD VARIABILITY; DIURNAL CYCLE; DIURNAL VARIABILITY; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; INDIAN MONSOON; INDIAN OCEAN EXPERIMENTS; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; LARGE DISPARITY; METEOSAT; MODEL OUTPUTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OVER WATER; POLAR-ORBITING SATELLITES; POST-MONSOON; PRE-MONSOON; RADIATION BUDGET; REANALYSIS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIME AND SPACE; TIME-SCALES; U-SHAPED;

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD COVER; CONVECTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; METEOSAT; MONSOON; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIATION BUDGET; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARABIAN SEA; BAY OF BENGAL; CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77649176457     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAMC2027.1     Document Type: Article

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