Decadal changes in tropical convection suggest effects on stratospheric water vapor

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Tselioudis, George ^a,b   Tromeur, Eric ^c   Rossow, William B ^c   Zerefos, C S ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; NATURAL CONVECTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; TROPICS;

CLOUD PROPERTIES; CONSTANT LEVEL; DECADAL CHANGE; DEEP CONVECTION; DEEP TROPICAL CONVECTION; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; INDIAN OCEAN; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TROPICAL CONVECTION; VARIABILITY PATTERNS; WATER VAPOR CONCENTRATION;

WATER VAPOR;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD COVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECADAL VARIATION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER VAPOR;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

EID: 77955283167     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044092     Document Type: Article

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