Tropical cold-point tropopause: Climatology, seasonal cycle, and intraseasonal variability derived from COSMIC GPS radio occultation measurements

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5343-5360

  Kim, Joowan ^a   Son, Seok Woo ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Stratophere troposphere coupling; Stratosphere; Tropical variabilty; Tropopause

Indexed keywords

BOREAL WINTERS; CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY; DEEP CONVECTION; EQUATORIAL WAVES; FINE-SCALE STRUCTURES; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTRASEASONAL TIME SCALE; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; IONOSPHERE AND CLIMATES; KELVIN WAVES; LOCAL MINIMUMS; LOCAL STRUCTURE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; RADIO OCCULTATION MEASUREMENTS; SEASONAL CYCLE; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TROPICAL VARIABILTY; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; WAVENUMBER-FREQUENCY SPECTRA;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GRAVITY WAVES; IONOSPHERE; NATURAL CONVECTION; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

TROPICS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COSMIC; GPS; KELVIN WAVE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 84865105776     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00554.1     Document Type: Article

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