Abstract: AbstractPositive feedbacks between the cloud population and the environmental moisture field are central to theoretical expositions on the Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO). This study investigates the statistical incidence ...

Abstract: AbstractThe tropical precipitation?moisture relationship, characterized by rapid increases in precipitation for modest increases in moisture, is conceptually recast in a framework relevant to plume buoyancy and conditional ...

Abstract: adar-based latent heating retrievals typically apply a lookup table (LUT) derived from model output to surface rain amounts and rain type to determine the vertical structure of heating. In this study, a method has been ...

Abstract: Convective Quasi-equilibrium (QE) and weak temperature gradient (WTG) balances are frequently employed to study the tropical atmosphere. This study uses linearized equatorial beta-plane solutions to examine the relevant ...