Latent heating and cooling rates in developing and nondeveloping tropical disturbances during TCS-08: TRMM PR versus ELDORA retrievals

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-35

  Park, Myung sook ^a   Elsberry, Russell L ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAVORABLE CONDITIONS; HEATING AND COOLING RATES; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; PRECIPITATION RADAR; TROPICAL DISTURBANCES; TROPICAL MESOSCALE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ALGORITHMS; COOLING; DOPPLER RADAR; HEATING; HURRICANES; STORMS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

RAIN GAGES;

ALGORITHM; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; COOLING; CYCLOGENESIS; DOPPLER RADAR; HEATING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ELECTRA;

EID: 84874976179     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-083.1     Document Type: Article

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