The relationship between clouds and dynamics in Southern Hemisphere extratropical cyclones in the real world and a climate model

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 6609-6628

  Govekar, Pallavi D ^a   Jakob, Christian ^a   Catto, Jennifer ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DYNAMICS; EARTH (PLANET); STORMS;

CLOUDSAT; DYNAMICAL VARIABLES; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; FRONTS; QUASI-LINEAR RELATIONSHIP; RELATIVE HUMIDITY CHANGES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; CYCLONE; ERROR ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84903280980     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020699     Document Type: Article

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