The melting level stability anomaly in the tropics

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1167-1176

  Folkins, I ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; MELTING; STRATIFORM CLOUD; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL REGION; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84873558618     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-1167-2013     Document Type: Article

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