Abstract: Dry layers are frequently observed in atmospheric soundings from the climatologically humid western Pacific warm pool region. Some 2400 soundings from the TOGA COARE field program were objectively examined for humidity ...

Abstract: Infrared satellite images of the oceanic warm-pool region (8O°E-160°W) have been objectively processed to reveal tropical ?cloud clusters? with temperature colder than a given threshold. Cloud clusters span a somewhat ...