A climatology of tropical congestus using CloudSat

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6478-6492

  Wall, Christina ^a   Liu, Chuntao ^a   Zipser, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

CloudSat; Congestus; remote sensing; TRMM; tropics

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING;

CLOUDSAT; CONGESTUS; CUMULUS CONGESTUS CLOUDS; INFRARED BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRMM; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

TROPICS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDSAT; CONGESTION; CUMULUS; DIURNAL VARIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84880903263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50455     Document Type: Article

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