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RISTropical Clouds and Circulation Changes during the 2006/07 and 2009/10 El Niños
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: hanges in tropical cloud vertical structure, cloud radiative forcing (CRF), and circulation exhibit distinctly different characteristics during the 2006/07 and 2009/10 El Niños, revealed by CloudSat and Cloud?Aerosol Lidar ...
Interhemispheric Variability of Earth’s Radiation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he variability of interhemispheric symmetry of Earth?s energy serves as an independent indicator of climate change. The analysis of updated data obtained from satellite measurements at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) shows ...
Unforced Surface Air Temperature Variability and Its Contrasting Relationship with the Anomalous TOA Energy Flux at Local and Global Spatial Scales
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: nforced global mean surface air temperature is stable in the long term primarily because warm anomalies are associated with enhanced outgoing longwave radiation to space and thus a negative net radiative energy flux (, ...
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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 ...
Elucidating the Role of Anthropogenic Aerosols in Arctic Sea Ice Variations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractObservations show that the Arctic sea ice cover has been shrinking at an unprecedented rate since the 1970s. Even though the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has been closely linked with the loss ...
Assessment of NASA GISS CMIP5 and Post-CMIP5 Simulated Clouds and TOA Radiation Budgets Using Satellite Observations. Part I: Cloud Fraction and Properties
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: lthough many improvements have been made in phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5), clouds remain a significant source of uncertainty in general circulation models (GCMs) because their structural and ...
A Comparative Study of Atmospheric Moisture Recycling Rate between Observations and Models
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractPrecipitation and column water vapor data from 13 CMIP5 models and observational datasets are used to analyze atmospheric moisture recycling rate from 1988 to 2008. The comparisons between observations and model ...
Elucidating the Role of Anthropogenic Aerosols in Arctic Sea Ice Variations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractObservations show that the Arctic sea ice cover has been shrinking at an unprecedented rate since the 1970s. Even though the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has been closely linked with the loss ...
Environmental controls on tropical mesoscale convective system precipitation intensity
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Using multiple independent satellite and reanalysis datasets, we compare relationships between mesoscale convective system (MCS) precipitation intensity (Pmax), environmental moisture, large-scale vertical velocity, and ...
Observed Increase of TTL Temperature and Water Vapor in Polluted Clouds over Asia
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: atellite observations are analyzed to examine the correlations between aerosols and the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) temperature and water vapor. This study focuses on two regions, both of which are important pathways ...