A three-hourly data set of the state of tropical convection based on cloud regimes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1415-1419

  Tan, Jackson ^a   Jakob, Christian ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cloud regimes; convection; isccp; tropics

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT STAGES; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; INFRARED SATELLITE INFORMATION; ISCCP; LARGE-SCALE STUDIES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SATELLITE INFORMATION; TROPICAL CONVECTION;

HEAT CONVECTION; SATELLITES; TROPICS;

TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD; DATA SET; DIURNAL VARIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84876907745     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50294     Document Type: Article

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