A multidecadal study of cirrus in the tropical tropopause layer

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 7938-7947

  Massie, S T ^a   Khosravi, R ^a   Gille, J C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

cirrus; satellite; trends

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; EXPERIMENTS; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; SATELLITES; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

CIRRUS; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR WITH ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; HALOGEN OCCULTATION EXPERIMENTS; HIGH-RESOLUTION DYNAMICS LIMB SOUNDERS; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; TRENDS; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS;

CLOUDS;

AEROSOL; CIRRUS; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; POLARIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOPAUSE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 84882803637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50596     Document Type: Article

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