Abstract: The net vertically integrated temperature of the GATE B army is analyzed at each rawinsonde observation time for all three phases. Temperatures are adjusted to remove persistent intership biases and errors induced by solar ...

Abstract: Rawinsonde composites from the west Pacific and West Indies are used to analyze some of the properties of tropical cyclones and their influences upon larger scale circulations. Composites of storms with different intensities ...

Abstract: Diagnostic moisture and dry static energy budgets for the GATE A/B-scale area are performed for individual time periods using rawinsonde and satellite data. The data are sufficiently accurate to permit quantitative analysis ...

Abstract: Rawinsonde and satellite data from GATE are used to construct composite analyses of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) of the summertime eastern Atlantic. The latitude of the ITCZ varies substantially with time, and ...

Abstract: In the past two decades there has been extensive research into the nature of atmospheric convection and scale interactions in cumulus regimes. A major goal of these efforts has been to advance the state of the art in cumulus ...

Abstract: An unusually large quantity of aircraft data was obtained within the core of Hurricane Frederic (1979). These data are combined with Powell's surface observations of the same storm and composited. The data are sufficiently ...

Abstract: A composite study of 10 years of northwest Pacific rawinsonde data is used to analyze the large-scale structure of tropical cyclones. The temperature, height, moisture, wind and vertical motion fields are analyzed for ...

Abstract: This study uses the data composited in Paper I to analyze the dynamics and energetics of a mature tropical cyclone in term of budget studies of moist static energy, angular momentum and kinetic energy. Sea surface to air ...

Abstract: Vertical fluxes of mass, static energy and angular momentum in tropical cyclones and their environments are analyzed using composite rawinsonde data. Cumulus-scale eddy fluxes are derived using a spectral cloud model ...

Abstract: The life cycles of GATE squall lines and loosely organized cloud clusters are analyzed and documented using radar and composited rawinsonde data. Time variations of the temperature, moisture, wind and vertical motion fields ...