Aircraft observations of dry air, the itcz, convective cloud systems, and cold pools in MJO during dynamo

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 405-423

  Chen, Shuyi S ^a   Kerns, Brandon W ^a   Guy, Nick ^b   Jorgensen, David P ^c   Delanoë, Julien ^d   Viltard, Nicolas ^d   Zappa, Christopher J ^e   Judt, Falko ^a   Lee, Chia Ying ^f   Savarin, Ajda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

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

^f Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT;

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER DEPTHS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; DRY-AIR INTRUSIONS; INDIAN OCEAN EXPERIMENTS; INTENSIVE OBSERVING PERIODS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTY;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84963860836     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00196.1     Document Type: Article

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