The frequency of tropical precipitating clouds as observed by the TRMM PR and ICESat/GLAS

Convective clouds in the tropics can be grouped into three categories: shallow clouds with cloud-top heights near 2 km above the surface, mid-level congestus clouds with tops near the 0°C level, and deep convective clouds capped by the tropopause. This trimodal distribution is visible in cloud dat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Casey, Sean Patrick
Other Authors: Dessler, Andrew E
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1895
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1895