Modulation of radiative heating by the Madden-Julian Oscillation and convectively coupled Kelvin waves as observed by CloudSat

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2011, Pages

  Ma, Ding ^a   Kuang, Zhiming ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; GRAVITY WAVES; TROPOSPHERE;

ACTIVE REGIONS; CLOUDSAT; KELVIN WAVES; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOIST STATIC ENERGY; RADIATIVE HEATING; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

RADIANT HEATING;

CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUDSAT; COMPOSITE; ENERGY BUDGET; HEATING; KELVIN WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; RADIATION BUDGET; SATELLITE DATA; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 81155138225     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049734     Document Type: Article

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