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Aerial Rivers and Lakes: Looking at Large-Scale Moisture Transport and Its Relation to Amazonia and to Subtropical Rainfall in South America

Source: Journal of Climate:;2011:;volume( 025 ):;issue: 002:;page 543

Author(s): Arraut, Josefina Moraes; Nobre, Carlos; Barbosa, Henrique M. J.; Obregon, Guillermo; Marengo, José

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: his is an observational study of the large-scale moisture transport over South America, with some analyses on its relation to subtropical rainfall. The concept of aerial rivers is proposed as a framework: it is an analogy ...

A Spatiotemporal Water Vapor–Deep Convection Correlation Metric Derived from the Amazon Dense GNSS Meteorological Network

Source: Monthly Weather Review:;2016:;volume( 145 ):;issue: 001:;page 279

Author(s): Adams, David K.; Barbosa, Henrique M. J.; Gaitán De Los Ríos, Karen Patricia

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: eep atmospheric convection, which covers a large range of spatial scales during its evolution, continues to be a challenge for models to replicate, particularly over land in the tropics. Specifically, the shallow-to-deep ...

Propagation of Strong Rainfall Events from Southeastern South America to the Central Andes

Source: Journal of Climate:;2015:;volume( 028 ):;issue: 019:;page 7641

Author(s): Boers, Niklas; Barbosa, Henrique M. J.; Bookhagen, Bodo; Marengo, José A.; Marwan, Norbert; Kurths, Jürgen

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: ased on high-spatiotemporal-resolution data, the authors perform a climatological study of strong rainfall events propagating from southeastern South America to the eastern slopes of the central Andes during the monsoon ...

LALINET: The first Latin American-born regional atmospheric observational network.

Source: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society:;2016:;volume( 098 ):;issue: 006:;page 1255

Author(s): Antuña-Marrero, Juan Carlos; Landulfo, Eduardo; Estevan, René; Barja, Boris; Robock, Alan; Wolfram, Elián; Ristori, Pablo; Clemesha, Barclay; Zaratti, Francesco; Forno, Ricardo; Armandillo, Errico; Bastidas, Álvaro E.; de Frutos Baraja, Ángel M.; Whiteman, David N.; Quel, Eduardo; Barbosa, Henrique M. J.; Lopes, Fabio; Montilla-Rosero, Elena; Guerrero-Rascado, Juan L.

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: Latin-American community of scientists engaged in atmospheric research using lidar has been built during the last 15 years, and in the process has generated a regional lidar network.

The Chuva Project: How Does Convection Vary across Brazil?

Source: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society:;2014:;volume( 095 ):;issue: 009:;page 1365

Author(s): Machado, Luiz A. T.; Silva Dias, Maria A. F.; Morales, Carlos; Fisch, Gilberto; Vila, Daniel; Albrecht, Rachel; Goodman, Steven J.; Calheiros, Alan J. P.; Biscaro, Thiago; Kummerow, Christian; Cohen, Julia; Fitzjarrald, David; Nascimento, Ernani L.; Sakamoto, Meiry S.; Cunningham, Christopher; Chaboureau, Jean-Pierre; Petersen, Walter A.; Adams, David K.; Baldini, Luca; Angelis, Carlos F.; Sapucci, Luiz F.; Salio, Paola; Barbosa, Henrique M. J.; Landulfo, Eduardo; Souza, Rodrigo A. F.; Blakeslee, Richard J.; Bailey, Jeffrey; Freitas, Saulo; Lima, Wagner F. A.; Tokay, Ali

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: aning ?rain? in Portuguese, is the acronym for the Cloud Processes of the Main Precipitation Systems in Brazil: A Contribution to Cloud-Resolving Modeling and to the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM). The CHUVA project ...

The Amazon Dense GNSS Meteorological Network: A New Approach for Examining Water Vapor and Deep Convection Interactions in the Tropics

Source: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society:;2015:;volume( 096 ):;issue: 012:;page 2151

Author(s): Adams, David K.; Fernandes, Rui M. S.; Holub, Kirk L.; Gutman, Seth I.; Barbosa, Henrique M. J.; Machado, Luiz A. T.; Calheiros, Alan J. P.; Bennett, Richard A.; Kursinski, E. Robert; Sapucci, Luiz F.; DeMets, Charles; Chagas, Glayson F. B.; Arellano, Ave; Filizola, Naziano; Amorim Rocha, Alciélio A.; Silva, Rosimeire Araújo; Assunção, Lilia M. F.; Cirino, Glauber G.; Pauliquevis, Theotonio; Portela, Bruno T. T.; Sá, André; de Sousa, Jeanne M.; Tanaka, Ludmila M. S.

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: he complex interactions between water vapor fields and deep atmospheric convection remain one of the outstanding problems in tropical meteorology. The lack of high spatial?temporal resolution, all-weather observations in ...

The Brazilian Global Atmospheric Model (BAM): Performance for Tropical Rainfall Forecasting and Sensitivity to Convective Scheme and Horizontal Resolution

Source: Weather and Forecasting:;2016:;volume( 031 ):;issue: 005:;page 1547

Author(s): Figueroa, Silvio N.; Bonatti, José P.; Kubota, Paulo Y.; Grell, Georg A.; Morrison, Hugh; Barros, Saulo R. M.; Fernandez, Julio P. R.; Ramirez, Enver; Siqueira, Leo; Luzia, Graziela; Silva, Josiane; Silva, Juliana R.; Pendharkar, Jayant; Capistrano, Vinicius B.; Alvim, Débora S.; Enoré, Diego P.; Diniz, Fábio L. R.; Satyamurti, Praki; Cavalcanti, Iracema F. A.; Nobre, Paulo; Barbosa, Henrique M. J.; Mendes, Celso L.; Panetta, Jairo

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: his article describes the main features of the Brazilian Global Atmospheric Model (BAM), analyses of its performance for tropical rainfall forecasting, and its sensitivity to convective scheme and horizontal resolution. ...

ACRIDICON–CHUVA Campaign: Studying Tropical Deep Convective Clouds and Precipitation over Amazonia Using the New German Research Aircraft HALO

Source: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society:;2016:;volume( 097 ):;issue: 010:;page 1885

Author(s): Wendisch, Manfred; Pöschl, Ulrich; Andreae, Meinrat O.; Machado, Luiz A. T.; Albrecht, Rachel; Schlager, Hans; Rosenfeld, Daniel; Martin, Scot T.; Abdelmonem, Ahmed; Afchine, Armin; Araùjo, Alessandro C.; Artaxo, Paulo; Aufmhoff, Heinfried; Barbosa, Henrique M. J.; Borrmann, Stephan; Braga, Ramon; Buchholz, Bernhard; Cecchini, Micael Amore; Costa, Anja; Curtius, Joachim; Dollner, Maximilian; Dorf, Marcel; Dreiling, Volker; Ebert, Volker; Ehrlich, André; Ewald, Florian; Fisch, Gilberto; Fix, Andreas; Frank, Fabian; Fütterer, Daniel; Heckl, Christopher; Heidelberg, Fabian; Hüneke, Tilman; Jäkel, Evelyn; Järvinen, Emma; Jurkat, Tina; Kanter, Sandra; Kästner, Udo; Kenntner, Mareike; Kesselmeier, Jürgen; Klimach, Thomas; Knecht, Matthias; Kohl, Rebecca; Kölling, Tobias; Krämer, Martina; Krüger, Mira; Krisna, Trismono Candra; Lavric, Jost V.; Longo, Karla; Mahnke, Christoph; Manzi, Antonio O.; Mayer, Bernhard; Mertes, Stephan; Minikin, Andreas; Molleker, Sergej; Münch, Steffen; Nillius, Björn; Pfeilsticker, Klaus; Pöhlker, Christopher; Roiger, Anke; Rose, Diana; Rosenow, Dagmar; Sauer, Daniel; Schnaiter, Martin; Schneider, Johannes; Schulz, Christiane; de Souza, Rodrigo A. F.; Spanu, Antonio; Stock, Paul; Vila, Daniel; Voigt, Christiane; Walser, Adrian; Walter, David; Weigel, Ralf; Weinzierl, Bernadett; Werner, Frank; Yamasoe, Marcia A.; Ziereis, Helmut; Zinner, Tobias; Zöger, Martin

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: etween 1 September and 4 October 2014, a combined airborne and ground-based measurement campaign was conducted to study tropical deep convective clouds over the Brazilian Amazon rain forest. The new German research aircraft, ...