An assessment of atmospheric water budget components over tropical oceans

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2054-2071

  Brown, Paula J ^a   Kummerow, Christian D ^a  

^a Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; ATMOSPHERIC WATER; BUOY OBSERVATIONS; FRESHWATER FLUXES; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; HUMIDITY GRADIENTS; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS;

BUDGET CONTROL; EVAPORATION; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; EVAPORATION; HUMIDITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WATER BUDGET; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84897648646     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00385.1     Document Type: Article

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