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RISA Global Climatology of Temperature and Water Vapor Variance Scaling from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A global climatology of height-resolved variance scaling within the troposphere is presented using derived temperature (T) and water vapor (q) profiles from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS). The power-law exponent ...
Limitations of Bispectral Infrared Cloud Phase Determination and Potential for Improvement
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Determining cloud thermodynamic phase using infrared satellite observations typically requires a priori assumptions about relationships between cloud phase and cloud temperature. In this study, limitations of an approach ...
A Preferred Scale for Warm-Core Instability in a Nonconvective Moist Basic State
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The existence, scale, and growth rates of subsynoptic-scale warm-core circulations are investigated with a simple parameterization for latent heat release in a nonconvective basic state using a linear two-layer shallow-water ...
Thermodynamic Phase and Ice Cloud Properties in Northern Hemisphere Winter Extratropical Cyclones Observed by Aqua AIRS
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ce cloud properties in Northern Hemisphere winter extratropical cyclones are examined using the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), version 6, cloud products. The cloud thermodynamic phase product indicates that warm ...
Assessment of sampling sufficiency for low-cost satellite missions: Application to PREFIRE
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Polar Radiant Energy in the Far Infrared Experiment (PREFIRE) mission will, for the first time, systematically document the far-infrared (15-54 µm) spectral region from space. The environmental sampling characteristics ...
Improved Detection of Interannual Cloud Variability over the Southern Hemisphere Using Legacy Satellites
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Shifts in deep tropical convection and midlatitude jet streams both manifest themselves in high cloud anomalies. Such anomalies may play a significant role in local to global climate processes. This work investigates how ...
Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Short-Term Cloud Feedback on Global and Local Interannual Climate Fluctuations from A-Train Observations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractObservations from multiple sensors on the NASA Aqua satellite are used to estimate the temporal and spatial variability of short-term cloud responses (CR) and cloud feedbacks ? for different cloud types, with respect ...
Trajectory-Enhanced AIRS Observations of Environmental Factors Driving Severe Convective Storms
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractWe investigate environmental factors of severe convective weather using temperature and moisture retrievals from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) that lie along parcel trajectories traced from tornado, large ...
A Nowcasting Approach for Low-Earth-Orbiting Hyperspectral Infrared Soundings within the Convective Environment
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Cloud-State-Dependent Sampling in AIRS Observations Based on CloudSat Cloud Classification
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he precision, accuracy, and potential sampling biases of temperature T and water vapor q vertical profiles obtained by satellite infrared sounding instruments are highly cloud-state dependent and poorly quantified. The ...