Large-scale vertical velocity, diabatic heating and drying profiles associated with seasonal and diurnal variations of convective systems observed in the GoAmazon2014/5 experiment

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2016, Pages 14249-14264

  Tang, Shuaiqi ^a   Xie, Shaocheng ^a   Zhang, Yunyan ^a   Zhang, Minghua ^b   Schumacher, Courtney ^c   Upton, Hannah ^c   Jensen, Michael P ^d   Johnson, Karen L ^d   Wang, Meng ^d   Ahlgrimm, Maike ^e   Feng, Zhe ^f   Minnis, Patrick ^g   Thieman, Mandana ^h  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^f PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^h SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

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EID: 84996602559     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-14249-2016     Document Type: Article

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