Column water vapor statistics and their relationship to deep convection, vertical and horizontal circulation, and moisture structure at Nauru

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 5454-5466

  Lintner, Benjamin R ^a   Holloway, Christopher E ^b   Neelin, J David ^c  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Anomalies; Atmospheric circulation; Convective scale processes; Radars Radar observations; Radiosonde observations; Remote sensing; Statistics; Trajectories; Transport; Tropical variabilty; Vertical motion; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

ANOMALIES; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CONVECTIVE-SCALE PROCESSES; TRANSPORT; TROPICAL VARIABILTY; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLIMATOLOGY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MOISTURE; NATURAL CONVECTION; RADIOSONDES; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; TRAJECTORIES; TROPOSPHERE;

WATER VAPOR;

ADVECTION; ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; FALLOUT; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HUMIDITY; MOISTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIOSONDE; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

NAURU;

EID: 80755182268     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-10-05015.1     Document Type: Article

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