A climatological perspective of deep convection penetrating the TTL during the Indian summer monsoon from the AVHRR and MODIS instruments

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 4573-4582

  Devasthale, A ^a   Fueglistaler, S ^b  

^a SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; AVHRR; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; MODIS; MONSOON; SATELLITE DATA; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE;

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

EID: 77952488193     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-4573-2010     Document Type: Article

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