Vertical cloud structures of the boreal summer intraseasonal variability based on CloudSat observations and ERA-interim reanalysis

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 2219-2232

  Jiang, Xianan ^a,b   Waliser, Duane E ^a,b   Li, Jui Lin ^b   Woods, Christopher ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud water; CloudSat; Intraseasonal variability; Northward propagation

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD WATER; CLOUDSAT; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; MONSOON; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 79957828144     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0853-8     Document Type: Article

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