Ground-based observations of overshooting convection during the tropical warm pool-international cloud experiment

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 880-905

  Hassim, M E E ^a,b   Lane, T P ^a,b   May, P T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; EXPERIMENTS; LAKES; RADAR; STORMS; TROPICS;

AUSTRALIAN MONSOON; DIURNAL VARIABILITY; GEOMETRICAL CONSTRAINTS; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; TROPICAL CONVECTION; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS; TWP ICES;

ICE;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA SET; DIURNAL VARIATION; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADAR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STORM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOPAUSE;

AUSTRALIA; DARWIN; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 84900599240     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020673     Document Type: Article

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