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RISTropical Stationary Waves in a Nonlinear Shallow-Water Model with Realistic Basic States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The nonlinear shallow-water equations are used to study the tropical stationary wave response to steady thermal forcing near the equator in earthlike zonally symmetric basic states. A thin (200 m) fluid layer is superimposed ...
Equatorial Superrotation and the Factors Controlling the Zonal-Mean Zonal Winds in the Tropical Upper Troposphere
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The response of the zonal-mean zonal winds in the tropical upper troposphere to thermal forcing in the Tropics is studied using an idealized general circulation model with 18 vertical levels and simplified atmospheric ...
The Tropical Dynamical Response to Latent Heating Estimates Derived from the TRMM Precipitation Radar
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A 3-yr (1998?2000) climatology of near-surface rainfall and stratiform rain fraction observed by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation radar (PR) was used to calculate the four-dimensional distribution ...
Tropical Zonal Momentum Balance in the NCEP Reanalyses
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The seasonal cycle of the zonal-mean zonal momentum balance in the Tropics is investigated using NCEP reanalysis data. It is found that the climatological stationary waves in the tropical upper troposphere, which are ...
Sensitivity of Regulated Flow Regimes to Climate Change in the Western United States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractWater management activities modify water fluxes at the land surface and affect water resources in space and time. Conventional understanding on the role of water management suggests that regulated river flow would ...