Relationship of cloud top to the tropopause and jet structure from CALIPSO data

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Pan, L L ^a   Munchak, L A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RADAR; TROPICS;

ANCILLARY DATA; CALIPSO; CLOUD DATA; CLOUD LAYERS; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR; COLD POINT; DATA FILES; DEEP CONVECTION; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; GLOBAL SCALE; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; GRID LEVELS; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; JET STRUCTURE; LAPSE RATE; LOCAL EQUATOR CROSSING TIME; MIDLATITUDES; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; RADIOSONDE MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; WESTERN PACIFIC; WINTER SEASONS;

CLOUDS;

CALIPSO; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EOS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RADIOSONDE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TROPICAL REGION; TROPOPAUSE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 79959644678     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015462     Document Type: Article

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