Tropical stratospheric cloud climatology from the PATMOS-x dataset: An assessment of convective contributions to stratospheric water

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Nielsen, J K ^a   Foster, M ^b   Heidinger, A ^b  

^a DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; NATURAL CONVECTION; TROPICS; WATER VAPOR;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DATA SETS; DEEP CONVECTION; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; GLOBAL CLOUDS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LENGTH SCALE; STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL STRATOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR CONCENTRATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; AVHRR; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CORRELATION; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; STRATOSPHERE; TIMESCALE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOPAUSE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 80053223877     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049429     Document Type: Article

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