Closing the global water vapor budget with AIRS water vapor, MERRA reanalysis, TRMM and GPCP precipitation, and GSSTF surface evaporation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 6307-6321

  Wong, Sun ^a   Fetzer, Eric J ^a   Kahn, Brian H ^a   Tian, Baijun ^a   Lambrigtsen, Bjorn H ^a   Ye, Hengchun ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE SPECTRA; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; INTRASEASONAL VARIATIONS; MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER; PRECIPITATION DATA; REANALYSIS; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; SURFACE EVAPORATION; SURFACE TURBULENT FLUXES; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOTAL WATER VAPORS; TROPICAL OCEAN; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; WATER VAPOR RETRIEVAL;

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPORATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; NASA; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE FLIGHT; TROPICS;

WATER VAPOR;

ANNUAL VARIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVAPORATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; STORM TRACK; WATER BUDGET; WATER VAPOR; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

AFRICA;

EID: 84155175749     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4154.1     Document Type: Article

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