The Walker circulation, diabatic heating, and outgoing longwave radiation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 9097-9105

  Stechmann, Samuel N ^a   Ogrosky, H Reed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

cloud radiative forcing; latent heating; overturning circulation; tropical climate

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; DAMPING; SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC HEATING; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL CLIMATES;

HEATING;

CLOUD COVER; DAMPING; DATA INTERPRETATION; DIABATIC PROCESS; LATENT HEAT FLUX; LONGWAVE RADIATION; NEW RECORD; SATELLITE DATA; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WALKER CIRCULATION;

EID: 84921814876     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062257     Document Type: Article

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