TRMM-Observed shallow versus deep convection in the eastern Pacific related to large-scale circulations in reanalysis datasets

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 5575-5592

  Yokoyama, Chie ^a,b   Zipser, Edward J ^a   Liu, Chuntao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Convective clouds; Diabatic heating; Pacific Ocean; Precipitation; Tropics

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADAR; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DIABATIC HEATING; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRECIPITATION PROPERTIES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC MOTION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DIABATIC PROCESS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TRMM; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84904511880     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00315.1     Document Type: Article

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