Total heating characteristics of the ISCCP tropical and subtropical cloud regimes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 7097-7116

  Stachnik, Justin P ^a   Schumacher, Courtney ^a   Ciesielski, Paul E ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; COMPOSITE PROFILES; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURES; INTEGRATED COOLING; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; STORMS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

HEATING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CIRRUS; CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; HEAT SOURCE; HEATING; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; STRATOCUMULUS; STRATUS; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84884243732     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00673.1     Document Type: Article

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