Abstract: Mixing in the free atmosphere above the planetary boundary layer is of great importance to the fate of trace gases and pollutants. However, direct measurements of the turbulent dissipation rate by in situ probes are very ...

Abstract: A coupled atmosphere?ocean single-column model has been developed for testing tropical ocean?atmosphere feedbacks. The model is evaluated against observational data (both in situ and satellite) during the Tropical Ocean ...

Abstract: A dataset consisting of daily diurnal warming values from 1996 through 2000 covering the global Tropics (30°N through 30°S) at 0.25° ? 0.25° resolution has been created using a parameterization for the diurnal warming ...

Abstract: This paper is an examination of 2?3-day convective variability in the tropical Pacific region. The initial focus of the paper is on the western tropical Pacific during the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled ...

Abstract: This paper provides a thorough evaluation of the hurricane indices (i.e., intensity, damage, and surge) recently proposed by Kantha. A database of past U.S. landfalling hurricanes was developed, and the indices were ...

Abstract: iurnal sea surface warming affects the fluxes of latent heat, sensible heat, and upwelling longwave radiation. Diurnal warming most typically reaches maximum values of 3°C, although very localized events may reach 7°?8°C. ...

Abstract: The authors apply a one-dimensional mixed layer model, based on second moment closure of turbulence, to study the characteristics of turbulence in the equatorial mixed layer. In particular, they focus on characteristics ...

Abstract: This paper examines how combining training-set forecasts from two separate oceanic basins affects the resulting tropical cyclone track and intensity forecasts in a particular oceanic basin. Atlantic and eastern Pacific ...

Abstract: Using 9 yr of IR brightness temperature values as a proxy for tropical convection, the climatology and statistics of the 2?3-day convective oscillation signal are examined. These higher-frequency oscillations are shown to ...

Abstract: The relationship among clouds, surface radiation flux, and the sea surface temperature (SST) of the tropical western Pacific Ocean over the diurnal cycle is addressed in the context of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement ...