Assessing the impact of meteorological history on subtropical cloud fraction

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2926-2940

  Mauger, Guillaume S ^a   Norris, Joel R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK TRAJECTORIES; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD PROPERTIES; CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; LAGRANGIAN METHODS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; METEOROLOGICAL FIELDS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NORTH EAST ATLANTIC; OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS; QUIKSCAT; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SCATTEROMETERS; SHORT TIME SCALE; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS; SURFACE FLUX; TIME-SCALES;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; FUZZY CONTROL; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE SENSORS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

TRAJECTORIES;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SSM-I; SURFACE FLUX; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 77954356448     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3272.1     Document Type: Article

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