Abstract: A beat source with a vertical profile like that of observed tropical mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) is shown to cause, through inviscid gravity wave dynamics, upward displacement at low levels in a mesoscale region ...

Abstract: A toy model of large-scale deep convection variations is constructed around a radiative?convective equilibrium climate, with an observed mean sounding as its thermodynamic basic state. Vertical structure is truncated at ...

Abstract: The problem of closure in cumulus parameterization requires an understanding of the sensitivities of convective cloud systems to their large-scale setting. As a step toward such an understanding, this study probes some ...

Abstract: Domain-average momentum budgets are examined in several multiday cloud-resolving model simulations of deep tropical convection in realistic shears. The convective eddy momentum tendency F, neglected in many global circulation ...

Abstract: A simple new analysis method for large single-Doppler radar datasets is presented, using data from several tropical field experiments. A cylindrical grid is chosen, to respect both the geophysical importance of altitude ...

Abstract: A cloud-resolving model is used to study the effects of a vertical temperature dipole on convective cloud development. Such dipole anomalies, with a warm-above-cool structure in the troposphere, are known to be forced by ...

Abstract: n this study, TRMM-observed precipitation in the tropics is decomposed according to the horizontal area of radar precipitation features, with special emphasis on large systems (rain area > 104 km2) that contribute roughly ...

Abstract: Heating in the atmosphere can be expressed as diabatic divergence δd, which is nearly equal to the actual horizontal divergence δ in tropical convection. High-quality δ profile measurements from airborne Doppler radar ...

Abstract: A three-dimensional cloud-resolving model, maintained in a statistically steady convecting state by tropics-like forcing, is subjected to sudden (10 min) stimuli consisting of horizontally homogeneous temperature and/or ...

Abstract: he Modern-Era Reanalysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) is realistic, including its Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO), which the underlying model [Goddard Earth Observing System, version 5 (GEOS-5)] lacks. In the MERRA ...