On the identification of the large-scale properties of tropical convection using cloud regimes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 6591-6617

  Tan, Jackson ^a   Jakob, Christian ^a   Lane, Todd P ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PROPERTIES; CONVECTIVE BEHAVIOR; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL CONVECTION;

CLOUDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD COVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; SATELLITE DATA; STRATIFORM CLOUD; STRATOCUMULUS;

EID: 84883165185     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00624.1     Document Type: Article

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