First-order structure function analysis of statistical scale invariance in the AIRS-observed water vapor field

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 5538-5555

  Pressel, Kyle G ^a   Collins, William D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; DIRECTIONAL DEPENDENCE; EXTRATROPICS; FIRST-ORDER; FREE TROPOSPHERE; GLOBAL MAXIMUM; POWER-LAW; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SCALE DEPENDENCE; SCALE INVARIANCE; SCALING EXPONENT; SCALING REGIMES; SEASONAL DEPENDENCE; STATISTICAL SCALE; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; STRUCTURE-FUNCTION ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR FIELDS;

INFRARED DEVICES; SCALING LAWS; STATISTICS; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS;

INFRARED INSTRUMENTS;

AIRS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84865703420     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00374.1     Document Type: Article

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