Analyzing dynamical circulations in the tropical tropopause layer through empirical predictions of cirrus cloud distributions

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2831-2845

  Bergman, John W ^a,b   Jensen, Eric J ^c   Pfister, Leonhard ^c   Pan, Laura L ^b   Honomichl, Shawn ^b  

^a BAY AREA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; FORECASTING; MOISTURE; TROPICS;

CIRRUS; EMPIRICAL PREDICTIONS; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; MULTIVARIATE POLYNOMIAL REGRESSIONS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; TRANSPORT; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS; TROPOPAUSE;

CLOUDS;

CALIPSO; CIRRUS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; PREDICTION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOPAUSE;

ASIA;

EID: 84898799566     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD021295     Document Type: Article

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