Estimating vertical motion profile shape within tropical weather states over the oceans

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7667-7686

  Handlos, Zachary J ^a   Back, Larissa E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VERTICAL MOTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER;

EID: 84907433694     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00602.1     Document Type: Article

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