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RISToward a Fully Parametric Retrieval of the Nonraining Parameters over the Global Oceans
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In light of the upcoming launch of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, a parametric retrieval algorithm of the nonraining parameters over the global oceans is developed with the ability to accommodate all ...
A Multisensor Observational Depiction of the Transition from Light to Heavy Rainfall on Subdaily Time Scales
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: tilizing data from the Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT), a new observational parameter related to mesoscale cold pool activity [termed cold pool kinetic energy (CPKE)] is developed and investigated. CPKE and the Climate ...
The Sensitivity of Rainfall Estimation to Error Assumptions in a Bayesian Passive Microwave Retrieval Algorithm
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he Goddard profiling algorithm (GPROF) uses Bayesian probability theory to retrieve rainfall over the global oceans. A critical component of GPROF and most Bayes theorem?based retrieval frameworks is the specification of ...
A Lagrangian View of Moisture Dynamics during DYNAMO
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: olumn water vapor (CWV) is studied using data from the Dynamics of the Madden?Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO) field experiment. A distinctive moist mode in tropical CWV probability distributions motivates the work. The Lagrangian ...
Relationships between the Raindrop Size Distribution and Properties of the Environment and Clouds Inferred from TRMM
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: aindrop size distribution (DSD) retrievals from two years of data gathered by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite and processed with a combined radar?radiometer algorithm over the oceans equatorward ...
A Lagrangian Analysis of Deep Convective Systems and Their Local Environmental Effects
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ife cycles of deep convective raining systems are documented through use of a Lagrangian tracking algorithm applied to high-resolution Climate Prediction Center morphing technique (CMORPH) rainfall data, permitting collocation ...
Evaluation of Cloud Liquid Water Path Trends Using a Multidecadal Record of Passive Microwave Observations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: n this study, observed cloud liquid water path (LWP) trends from the Multisensor Advanced Climatology of Liquid Water Path (MAC-LWP) dataset (1988 ? 2014) are compared to trends computed from the temporally-coincident ...
Observed Self-Similarity of Precipitation Regimes over the Tropical Oceans
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A K-means clustering algorithm was used to classify Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) scenes within 1° square patches over the tropical (15°S?15°N) oceans. Three cluster centroids or ...
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Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractPartitioning of convective ice into precipitating and detrained condensate presents a challenge for GCMs since partitioning depends on the strength and microphysics of the convective updraft. It is an important ...
A Regime-Oriented Approach to Observationally Constraining Extratropical Shortwave Cloud Feedbacks
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The extratropical shortwave (SW) cloud feedback is primarily due to increases in extratropical liquid cloud extent and optical depth. Here, we examine the response of extratropical (35°–75°) marine cloud liquid water path ...