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Low-latitude boundary layer clouds as seen by CALIPSO [PDF]

, 2010
The distribution of low-level cloud in the tropical belt is investigated using 6 months of Level 2 retrievals from Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) at 333 m and 1 km horizontal resolutions.
Antoniazzi, C., Medeiros, B., Nuijens, L., Stevens, B.   +3 more
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An Analysis of Tropical Cold-Point Tropopause Warming in 1999

Advances in Meteorology, 2017
Using reanalysis datasets, the warming of the tropical tropopause in 1999 and its evolution are investigated. It is found that there is a strong rate of increase in tropical cold-point tropopause temperature (CPTT) in June 1999, with negative CPTT ...
Yuanyuan Han, Fei Xie, Shiyan Zhang, Ruhua Zhang, Feiyang Wang, Jiankai Zhang   +5 more
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A Machine Learning Assisted Development of a Model for the Populations of Convective and Stratiform Clouds

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2020
Traditional parameterizations of the interaction between convection and the environment have relied on an assumption that the slowly varying large‐scale environment is in statistical equilibrium with a large number of small and short‐lived convective ...
Samson Hagos, Zhe Feng, Robert S. Plant, Alain Protat   +3 more
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Tropical Deep Convection, Convective Available Potential Energy and Sea Surface Temperature

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II, 1996
The convective available potential energy (CAPE) based on monthly mean sounding has been shown to be relevant to deep convection in the tropics. The variation of CAPE with SST has been found to be similar to the variation of the frequency of deep convection at one station each in the tropical Atlantic and W. Pacific oceans.
Bhat, GS, Srinivasan, J, Gadgil, S
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Interannual variability of the Tropical Atlantic independent of and associated with ENSO: Part II. The South Tropical Atlantic [PDF]

, 2006
Two dominant ocean-atmosphere modes of variability on interannual timescales were defined in Part I of this work, namely, the North Tropical Atlantic (NTA) and South Tropical Atlantic (STA) modes.
Barreiro, Bishop, Bjerknes, CabosNarvaez, Carton, Chiang, Compo, Curtis, Darnell, Delecluse, Diaz, Dommenget, Enfield, Fairall, Florenchie, Giannini, Gupta, Handoh, Handoh, Hirst, Hirst, Horel, Hoskins, Huang, Huang, Huang, Huang, Joyce, Kistler, Klein, Latif, Liebmann, Liu, Mariotti, Matthews, Mo, Mo, Philander, Pozo-Vazquez, Ruiz-Barradas, Ruiz-Barradas, Saravanan, Servain, Spencer, Sterl, Sutton, Tourre, Tseng, Wu, Wu, Xie, Xie, Xie, Zebiak   +53 more
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Sensitivity of tropical orographic precipitation to wind speed with implications for future projections [PDF]

Weather and Climate Dynamics
Some of the rainiest regions on Earth lie upstream of tropical mountains, where the interaction of prevailing winds with orography produces frequent precipitating convection.
Q. Nicolas, Q. Nicolas, W. R. Boos, W. R. Boos   +3 more
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Modelling monsoons: understanding and predicting current and future behaviour [PDF]

, 2011
The global monsoon system is so varied and complex that understanding and predicting its diverse behaviour remains a challenge that will occupy modellers for many years to come.
Giannini, Alessandra, Kimoto, Masahide, Mechoso, C. Roberto, Meehl, Gerald, Slingo, Julia Mary, Sperber, Kenneth, Turner, Andrew George   +6 more
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Dynamical Downscaling of Climate Simulations in the Tropics

Geophysical Research Letters
The long‐existing double‐Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) problem in global climate models (GCMs) hampers accurate climate simulations in the tropics. Using a regional climate model (RCM) over the tropical and sub‐tropical Atlantic with a horizontal
Shuchang Liu, Christian Zeman, Christoph Schär   +2 more
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The role of the equivalent blackbody temperature in the study of Atlantic Ocean tropical cyclones [PDF]

Satellite measured equivalent blackbody temperatures of Atlantic Ocean tropical cyclones are used to investigate their role in describing the convection and cloud patterns of the storms and in predicting wind intensity.
Gentry, R. C., Rodgers, E. B., Steranka, J.   +2 more
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Chemical characteristics of air from different source regions during the second Pacific Exploratory Mission in the Tropics (PEM-Tropics B) [PDF]

, 2001
Ten-day backward trajectories are used to determine the origins of air parcels arriving at locations of airborne DC-8 chemical measurements during NASA's second Pacific Exploratory Mission in the Tropics B that was conducted during February-April 1999 ...
Avery, MA, Blake, DR, Crawford, JH, Fuelberg, HE, Heikes, BG, Maloney, JC, Sachse, GW, Sandholm, ST, Singh, H, Talbot, RW   +9 more
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