Tropical South America-Atlantic sector convective margins and their relationship to low-level inflow

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2671-2685

  Lintner, Benjamin R ^a   Neelin, J David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; BACK TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; CONVECTION ZONE; CONVECTIVE ZONE; DIABATIC; DRY AIR; FREE TROPOSPHERE; INFLOW CONDITIONS; INFLOW-OUTFLOW; INITIAL MOISTURE; MEAN PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITABLE WATER; REANALYSIS; SOURCE REGION; SOUTH AMERICA; TIME-SCALES; TOTAL PRECIPITABLE WATER;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; TRAJECTORIES; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; INFLOW; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PRECIPITABLE WATER; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 77954377814     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3301.1     Document Type: Article

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