Intercomparison of deep convection over the Tibetan Plateau-Asian monsoon region and subtropical North America in boreal summer using CloudSat/CALIPSO data

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2164-2177

  Luo, Yali ^a   Zhang, Renhe ^a   Qian, Weimiao ^a   Luo, Zhengzhao ^b,c   Hu, Xin ^d  

^a Chinese Academy of Meteorological Science   (China)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asia; Convection; Lidar observations; Monsoons; North America; Radar observations; Satellite observation; Subtropics; Summer warm season

Indexed keywords

ASIA; LIDAR OBSERVATIONS; MONSOONS; NORTH AMERICA; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATION; SUBTROPICS; SUMMER/WARM SEASON;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; NATURAL CONVECTION; OPTICAL RADAR;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CALIPSO; CLOUD COVER; CLOUDSAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHO SOUNDING; MONSOON; SATELLITE DATA; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

CHINA; FAR EAST; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79958125741     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI4032.1     Document Type: Article

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