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RISA 10-Year Climatology of Tropical Radiative Heating and Its Vertical Structure from TRMM Observations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This paper outlines recent advances in estimating atmospheric radiative heating rate profiles from the sensors aboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). The approach employs a deterministic framework in which ...
The Southeast Pacific Warm Band and Double ITCZ
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The east Pacific double intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) in austral fall is investigated with particular focus on the growing processes of its Southern Hemisphere branch. Satellite measurements from the Tropical ...
A Mechanism of Tropical Convection Inferred from Observed Variability in the Moist Static Energy Budget
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: emporal variability in the moist static energy (MSE) budget is studied with measurements from a combination of different satellites including the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and A-Train platforms. A composite ...
An Estimation-Based Precipitation Retrieval Algorithm for Attenuating Radars
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A new method for retrieving rainfall profiles from a spaceborne radar is introduced. As a result of the frequencies necessary in spaceborne radar applications, attenuation by both rainfall and liquid cloud particles is ...
The Tropical Oceanic Energy Budget from the TRMM Perspective. Part I: Algorithm and Uncertainties
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The earth's weather and climate is driven by the meridional transport of energy required to establish a global balance between incoming energy from the sun and outgoing thermal energy emitted by the atmosphere and surface. ...
The Tropical Atmospheric Energy Budget from the TRMM Perspective. Part II: Evaluating GCM Representations of the Sensitivity of Regional Energy and Water Cycles to the 1998–99 ENSO Cycle
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The impact of clouds and precipitation on the climate is a strong function of their spatial distribution and microphysical properties, characteristics that depend, in turn, on the environments in which they form. Simulating ...
Equatorial Asymmetry of the East Pacific ITCZ: Observational Constraints on the Underlying Processes
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The equatorial asymmetry of the east Pacific intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is explored on the basis of an ocean surface heat budget analysis carried out with a variety of satellite data products. The annual mean ...
Observed Energetic Adjustment of the Arctic and Antarctic in a Warming World
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
The Madden–Julian Oscillation Recorded in Early Observations from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A satellite data analysis is performed to explore the Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO) focusing on the potential roles of the equatorial Rossby (ER) and Kelvin waves. Measurements from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission ...
Variability in the Characteristics of Precipitation Systems in the Tropical Pacific. Part I: Spatial Structure
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Regional and temporal variability in the vertical and horizontal characteristics of tropical precipitating clouds are investigated using the Precipitation Radar (PR) and the Visible and Infrared Scanner (VIRS) on board the ...