Analysis of the Tropical Tropopause Layer Cirrus in CALIPSO and MLS Data - A Water Perspective

Two mechanisms appear to be primarily responsible for the formation of cirrus clouds in Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL): detrainment from deep convective anvils and in situ initiation. Here we propose to identify TTL cirrus clouds by analyzing water content measurements from the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar...

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Main Author: Wang, Tao
Other Authors: Dessler, Andrew
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9273