Interannual variability of tropical tropopause layer clouds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2862-2866

  Davis, Sean M ^a,b   Liang, Calvin K ^c   Rosenlof, Karen H ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brewer Dobson Circulation; cirrus; ENSO; QBO; TTL

Indexed keywords

BREWER-DOBSON CIRCULATION; CIRRUS; ENSO; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; QBO; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLOUDS; TRANSISTOR TRANSISTOR LOGIC CIRCUITS;

TROPICS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CIRRUS; CLOUD COVER; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SATELLITE DATA; TROPOPAUSE; UPWELLING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84879942113     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50512     Document Type: Article

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