Vertical structures of anvil clouds of tropical mesoscale convective systems observed by CloudSat

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1653-1674

  Yuan, Jian ^a   Houze Jr , Robert A ^a   Heymsfield, Andrew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective clouds; Convective storms; Mesoscale systems; Radars Radar observations; Satellite observations; Tropics

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT DATA; CLOUD LAYERS; CLOUD PROFILING RADARS; CLOUD STRUCTURE; CLOUDSAT; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CONVECTIVE STORMS; DATA SETS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; ICE PARTICLES; MESO-SCALE SYSTEMS; MODAL VALUES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SUPERCLUSTERS; TROPICAL MESOSCALE; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

CLOUDS; GRAPHIC METHODS; REFLECTION; STATISTICAL TESTS; TOOLS; TROPICS;

STORMS;

CLOUDSAT; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RADAR;

EID: 79960481745     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JAS3687.1     Document Type: Article

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