Abstract: A clustering algorithm is used to define the radiative, hydrological, and microphysical properties of precipitating convective events in the equatorial region observed by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) ...

Abstract: Cloud vertical distributions across extratropical warm and cold fronts are obtained using two consecutive winters of CloudSat?Cloud?Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) observations and ...

Abstract: A current-climate simulation of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) GCM, which includes interactive cloud optical properties that depend on the predicted cloud water content, is analyzed to document the variations ...

Abstract: An efficient new prognostic cloud water parameterization designed for use in global climate models is described. The scheme allows for life cycle effects in stratiform clouds and permits cloud optical properties to be ...

Abstract: Precipitation processes in convective storms are potentially a major regulator of cloud feedback. An unresolved issue is how the partitioning of convective condensate between precipitation-size particles that fall out of ...