Actinoform Clouds: Overlooked examples of cloud self-organization at the mesoscale

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1585-1594

  Garay, Michael J ^a,b   Davies, Roger ^b   Averill, Clare ^b,c   Westphal, James A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; OCEAN CURRENTS; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND;

ACTINOFORM CLOUDS; CLOUD STRUCTURE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MESOSCALE CELLULAR CONVECTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLOUDS;

EID: 8644286371     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-85-10-1585     Document Type: Article

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