Publication Date:
2011-08-24
Description:
An overview is presented of the tropical component of STEP. The STEP cooperative experiments are described and summaries are presented of the STEP tropical ER-2 aircraft flights. STEP tropical results on dehydration and transfer and the mechanisms of upward transfer are summarized. Illustrations show flight paths for each sortie on satellite images and on 100 hPa synoptic flow charts, as well as the timing of flights with respect to overall cloudiness in the Australian region.
Keywords:
METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY
Type:
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 98; D5; p. 8563-8589.
Format:
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