Record of tropical interannual variability of temperature and water vapor from a combined AIRS-MLS data set

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Liang, C K ^a,b   Eldering, A ^c   Gettelman, A ^d   Tian, B ^c   Wong, S ^c   Fetzer, E J ^c   Liou, K N ^a,b  

^a Los Angeles   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; INFRARED DEVICES; SUPERALLOYS; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; DATA SETS; DEEP CONVECTION; IN-PHASE; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MIXING RATIOS; OUT OF PHASE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPICAL WESTERN PACIFIC; TROPOPAUSE REGION; WALKER CIRCULATION; WATER VAPOR CONCENTRATION; WATER VAPOR DISTRIBUTION;

WATER VAPOR;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MIXING RATIO; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOPAUSE; WALKER CIRCULATION; WATER VAPOR;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 79953236195     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014841     Document Type: Article

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