Diabatic heating profiles in recent global reanalyses

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3307-3325

  Ling, Jian ^a   Zhang, Chidong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION; DATA ASSIMILATION MODEL; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LIMITED INFORMATION; PRECIPITATION PROCESS; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; HEATING;

TROPICS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONDENSATION; CUMULUS; DIABATIC PROCESS; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; FORECASTING METHOD; HEATING; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878155319     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00384.1     Document Type: Article

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