Global seasonal variations of midday planetary boundary layer depth from CALIPSO space-borne LIDAR

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1226-1233

  McGrath Spangler, Erica L ^a,b   Denning, A Scott ^c  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

CALIPSO; LIDAR; planetary boundary layer; seasonal cycle

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; OPTICAL RADAR;

CALIPSO; COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; PROMINENT FEATURES; REGIONAL VARIATION; SEASONAL CYCLE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AEROSOL; BOUNDARY LAYER; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LIDAR; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; OCEANIC CONVECTION; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SAMPLING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBSIDENCE;

ASIA;

EID: 84880263628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50198     Document Type: Article

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