Quasi-stationary temperature structure in the upper troposphere over the tropical Indian Ocean inferred from radio occultation data

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Nishi, Noriyuki ^a   Nishimoto, Eriko ^b   Hayashi, Hiroo ^b   Shiotani, Masato ^b   Takashima, Hisahiro ^c   Tsuda, Toshitaka ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; HEATING; IONOSPHERE; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY , IONOSPHERE , AND CLIMATES; EUROPEAN CENTER FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FINE STRUCTURES; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; GLOBAL COVERAGE; HIGH VERTICAL RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL SURFACES; INDIAN OCEAN; INVERSION LAYER; KELVIN WAVES; QUASI-STATIONARY; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; REANALYSIS; SOUNDING TECHNIQUES; STABLE LAYER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN; TROPICAL TEMPERATURES; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WIND FIELD;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

GPS; HEATING; KELVIN WAVE; MONSOON; RADIOTELEMETRY; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; DATA INTERPRETATION; INVERSION LAYER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 77955182854     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD012857     Document Type: Article

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