Satellite inference of thermals and cloud-base updraft speeds based on retrieved surface and cloud-base temperatures

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2411-2428

  Zheng, Youtong ^a,b   Rosenfeld, Daniel ^b   Li, Zhanqing ^a,c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud retrieval; Convective clouds; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; INFRARED IMAGING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; ORBITS; SATELLITES; SPEED; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; CLOUD RETRIEVAL; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITES;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DOPPLER RADAR; SATELLITE DATA; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONVECTION; UPDRAFT; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84940452638     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-14-0283.1     Document Type: Article

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