A Lagrangian view of convective sources for transport of air across the Tropical Tropopause Layer: Distribution, times and the radiative influence of clouds

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 12517-12534

  Tzella, A ^a,b   Legras, B ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLEAR SKY; CLOUD; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 83455205614     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-12517-2011     Document Type: Article

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