Five year (2004-2009) observations of upper tropospheric water vapor and cloud ice from MLS and comparisons with GEOS-5 analyses

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 15, 2010, Pages

  Jiang, Jonathan H ^a   Su, Hui ^a   Pawson, Steven ^b   Liu, Hui Chun ^b   Read, William G ^a   Waters, Joe W ^a   Santee, Michelle L ^a   Wu, Dong L ^a   Schwartz, Michael J ^a   Livesey, Nathaniel J ^a   Lambert, Alyn ^a   Fuller, Ryan A ^a   Lee, Jae N ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DATA PROCESSING; NASA; NATURAL CONVECTION; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER CONTENT;

ANTICORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DEEP CONVECTION; EXTRATROPICS; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; ICE WATER CONTENT; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; SEASONAL CYCLE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TROPICAL CONVECTION; UPPER TROPOSPHERIC WATER VAPORS; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS;

WATER VAPOR;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CONVECTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EOS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LOW TEMPERATURE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 77955362922     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD013256     Document Type: Article

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