Cloudiness over the Amazon rainforest: Meteorology and thermodynamics

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 121, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 7990-8005

  Collow, Allison B Marquardt ^a,b,c   Miller, Mark A ^a   Trabachino, Lynne C ^a  

^a the State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD COVER; CONVERGENCE; MIXING RATIO; MOISTURE CONTENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFOREST; SEASONAL VARIATION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

AMAZONIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84978828192     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016JD024848     Document Type: Article

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