Building blocks of tropical diabatic heating

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2341-2354

  Hagos, Samson ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabatic heating; Empirical orthogonal functions; Heating; Tropical variability; Tropics

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; CONVECTIVE HEATING; DIABATIC HEATING; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; FIELD CAMPAIGN;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; TROPICS;

HEATING;

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DIABATIC PROCESS; HEATING; STRATIFORM CLOUD; TROPICAL REGION;

EID: 77955574306     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3252.1     Document Type: Article

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