Characteristics of a persistent "pool of inhibited cloudiness" and its genesis over the Bay of Bengal associated with the Asian summer monsoon

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1247-1252

  Kumar M Nair, Anish ^a   Rajeev, K ^a   Sijikumar, S ^a   Meenu, S ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Atmospheric composition and structure (Cloud physics and chemistry); Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (Climatology; Tropical meteorology)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUDSAT; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUMMER;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 79960352933     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-29-1247-2011     Document Type: Article

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