The diurnal cycle of cloud-top height and cloud cover over the southeastern pacific as observed by GOES-10

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2393-2408

  Painemal, David ^a   Minnis, Patrick ^a   O'neill, Larry ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD-TOP TEMPERATURES; FITTING TECHNIQUES; LAND-SEA BREEZE; LIQUID WATER PATHS; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

SUBSIDENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD COVER; DIURNAL VARIATION; GOES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOCUMULUS; TRMM; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 84883808450     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0325.1     Document Type: Article

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