A retrieval of tropical latent heating using the 3D structure of precipitation features

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1965-1982

  Ahmed, Fiaz ^a   Schumacher, Courtney ^a   Feng, Zhe ^b   Hagos, Samson ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING SYSTEMS; RADAR; RAIN; TABLE LOOKUP; TROPICS; ALGORITHMS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; FIELD CAMPAIGN; HIGH RESOLUTION; MELTING LAYERS; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; REGIONAL MODEL; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; INDIAN OCEAN EXPERIMENTS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; LATENT HEATING/COOLING; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS;

HEATING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; COOLING; HEATING; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; STRATIFORM CLOUD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPICAL REGION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84990831245     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0038.1     Document Type: Article

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