Tropical clouds and circulation changes during the 2006/07 and 2009/10 El Niños

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 399-413

  Su, Hui ^a   Jiang, Jonathan H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIPSO; CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; CIRCULATION CHANGES; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR; CLOUDSAT; HADLEY CIRCULATION; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; REANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL CLOUDS; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WALKER CIRCULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; OPTICAL RADAR; TROPICS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CALIPSO; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CLOUDSAT; EL NINO; LIDAR; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84872902019     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00152.1     Document Type: Article

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