The fine-scale structure of the global tropopause derived from COSMIC GPS radio occultation measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Son, Seok Woo ^a   Tandon, Neil F ^b   Polvani, Lorenzo M ^b,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COSMOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERE; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; BOREAL WINTERS; BREWER-DOBSON CIRCULATION; CLIMATE STUDIES; CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY; EXTRATROPICS; FINE-SCALE STRUCTURES; FORMOSA; HOMOGENEOUS STRUCTURE; INTRASEASONAL TIME SCALE; IONOSPHERE AND CLIMATES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; POLAR VORTEX; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RADIATIVE PROCESS; RADIO OCCULTATION MEASUREMENTS; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE MISSION; SEASONAL CYCLE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; SYSTEMATIC BIAS;

CLOUDS;

CLIMATOLOGY; COSMIC; GPS; IONOSPHERE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METEOROLOGY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIO; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TIMESCALE; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 80055042665     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016030     Document Type: Article

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