Fog and rain in the Amazon

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 37, 2015, Pages 11473-11477

  Anber, Usama ^a,b   Gentine, Pierre ^b   Wang, Shuguang ^c   Sobel, Adam H ^a,b,c  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ADVECTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLOUD; ENERGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOG; OCEANIC REGIONS; OSCILLATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATIVE FORCING; RAIN FOREST; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; STRATOSPHERE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84941703216     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1505077112     Document Type: Article

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