An assessment of the diurnal variation of upper tropospheric humidity in reanalysis data sets

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3425-3430

  Chung, Eui Seok ^a   Soden, Brian J ^a   Sohn, B J ^b   Schmetz, Johannes ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c EUMETSAT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MASKING; DIURNAL VARIATION; INFRARED RADIANCES; INFRARED SATELLITES; MULTIPLE SATELLITES; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; TROPOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

SATELLITES;

AMPLITUDE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA SET; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; DIURNAL VARIATION; HUMIDITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPOSPHERE; VELOCITY;

EID: 84881116539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50345     Document Type: Article

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