On the linkage between the asian summer monsoon and tropopause fold activity over the eastern mediterranean and the middle east

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3202-3221

  Tyrlis, Evangelos ^a   Škerlak, Bojan ^b   Sprenger, Michael ^b   Wernli, Heini ^b   Zittis, George ^a   Lelieveld, Jos ^a,c  

^a CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; DIGITAL STORAGE;

ASIAN MONSOON; ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MIDDLE EAST; SUMMER; TROPOPAUSE FOLDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BAROCLINIC MOTION; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; MONSOON; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONALITY; SUMMER; TROPOPAUSE; VERTICAL PROFILE;

AFGHANISTAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); MIDDLE EAST; TURKEY;

EID: 84898806731     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD021113     Document Type: Article

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