Global energy and water budgets in MERRA

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 5721-5739

  Bosilovich, Michael G ^a   Robertson, Franklin R ^b   Chen, Junye ^a,c  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy budget balance; Evaporation; Precipitation; Satellite observations; Water budget

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; CLOUD EFFECTS; CONTINUOUS DATA; DATA SETS; ENERGY BUDGETS; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL ENERGY; GLOBAL ENERGY BUDGET; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; INCREMENTAL ANALYSIS; MEAN PRECIPITATION; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OCEAN SURFACES; RADIANCE ASSIMILATION; REANALYSIS; REMOTELY-SENSED OBSERVATIONS; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; RESEARCH TOPICS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TIME-SCALES; WATER AND ENERGIES; WATER BUDGET;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPORATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIATION EFFECTS; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH; SATELLITES; TIME SERIES; WATER VAPOR;

BUDGET CONTROL;

ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPORATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 79959366257     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4175.1     Document Type: Article

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