Direct impacts of waves on tropical cold point tropopause temperature

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1584-1592

  Kim, Ji Eun ^a,b   Alexander, M Joan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

cirrus clouds; cold point temperature; equatorial waves; reanalysis temperature; stratospheric water vapor; tropical tropopause layer

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; EARTH (PLANET); OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; RADIOSONDES; TROPICS; WATER VAPOR;

CIRRUS CLOUDS; COLD POINT; EQUATORIAL WAVES; REANALYSIS; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS;

CLOUDS;

CIRRUS; EQUATORIAL WAVE; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIOSONDE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84925878381     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062737     Document Type: Article

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