On the global character of overlap between low and high clouds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 5320-5326

  Yuan, Tianle ^a,b   Oreopoulos, Lazaros ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

cloud overlap; cloud regimes; ice cloud; low cloud; tropopause

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SATELLITES; CLOUD OVERLAP; COLD AIR OUTBREAK; ICE CLOUDS; LARGE-SCALE DYNAMICS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TROPOPAUSE; VERTICAL SEPARATION;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD; CORRELATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SATELLITE SENSOR; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBSIDENCE; TROPOPAUSE; WINTER;

EID: 84884787253     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50871     Document Type: Article

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