Abstract: Cumulus-scale vertical transports of sensible heat and angular momentum are computed by a technique which uses detailed precipitation measurements as basic input. Data from Boston, Mass., New Orleans, La., San Juan, P.R., ...

Abstract: A tropical squall-line system which moved over the observational network of the Global Atmospheric Research Programme's Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE) was investigated using rawinsonde, weather radar, satellite, surface ...

Abstract: Clouds within the inner regions of tropical cyclones are unlike those anywhere else in the atmosphere. Convective clouds contributing to cyclogenesis have rotational and deep intense updrafts but tend to have relatively ...

Abstract: AbstractWhen cumulonimbus clouds aggregate, developing into a single entity with precipitation covering a horizontal scale of hundreds of kilometers, they are called mesoscale convective systems (MCSs). They account for ...

Abstract: It was once generally thought that stratiform precipitation was something occurring primarily, if not exclusively, in middle latitudes?in baroclinic cyclones and fronts. Early radar observations in the Tropics, however, ...

Abstract: This study examines the dynamical and microphysical mechanisms that enhance precipitation during the passage of winter midlatitude systems over mountain ranges. The study uses data obtained over the Oregon Cascade Mountains ...

Abstract: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) and National Centers for Environmental Prediction?National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP?NCAR) reanalysis data are used to indicate mechanisms ...

Abstract: Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) in the tropics produce extensive anvil clouds, which significantly affect the transfer of radiation. This study develops an objective method to identify MCSs and their anvils by combining ...

Abstract: n the Indo-Pacific region, mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) occur in a pattern consistent with the eastward propagation of the large-scale convective envelope of the Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO). MCSs are major ...

Abstract: Radar observations have been analyzed to determine characteristics of convection over the oceanic region around Kwajalein in the tropical western Pacific. Generally, the echo areas, heights, and durations exhibited lognormal ...