A 10-year climatology of tropical radiative heating and its vertical structure from trmm observations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 519-541

  L'ecuyer, Tristan S ^a   Mcgarragh, Greg ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; DATA SETS; DIABATIC HEATING; DOWN-WELLING; FORCINGS; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; LARGE-SCALE DYNAMICS; LONG WAVES; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE HEATING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RATE PROFILES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SHORTWAVE RADIATIVE FLUX; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; HEATING RATE; RADIANT HEATING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SENSORS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPICS; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEATING; LONGWAVE RADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE SENSOR; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 77952244782     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3018.1     Document Type: Article

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