Abstract: Data from all available sources have been used to construct vertical cross sections of the seasonal mean flow of the atmosphere between 900 and 30 mb, over the western and southern part of South America. Monthly zonal wind ...

Abstract: In this study we explore the accuracy, representativeness and reproducibility of tracer winds in the area of the 1974 GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE). These winds were generated by tracking clouds in Synchronous ...

Abstract: A survey of shallow (fair weather) cumulus clouds over part of Amazonia yields evidence of enhanced frequency where the forest had been cleared. The survey covers one dry-season month from 1988. It employs a threshold ...

Abstract: Ground based data from the Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment (BOMEX) have been combined with satellite data in a study of the time changing cloud and thermodynamic structure of cloud clusters and their ...

Abstract: A new technique is described for estimating daily rainfall by means of visible and infrared geostationary satellite imagery. It is designed for the tropics and warm-season midlatitudes. Because it operates on a grid of ...

Abstract: This article describes the size, intensity, trajectory, lifetime and distribution of the GATE cloud clusters of West Africa and the eastern Atlantic Ocean and relates their distribution to the summer climate of the region. ...

Abstract: An evolutionary view is sought Of a single cloud cluster. This cluster was chosen less for intensity than for comprehensive observations. The aim is to describe the principal outside controls on the cluster, including its ...

Abstract: We describe the behavior, dynamics and setting of three cloud clusters. The clusters occurred in the western Atlantic Ocean between 21 and 24 July 1969. Wind and cloud analyses made from intensive ship and satellite ...

Abstract: Rainfall is analyzed for the Indian and west Pacific Oceans. The analysis uses a multichannel scheme to retrieve open-ocean rain rate from brightness temperatures measured between 1979 and 1986 by the Nimbus-7 Scanning ...

Abstract: Monthly rain failing on the Indian Ocean is mapped for the period 1979 through 1981 by means of observations of the Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer. Both stationary and mobile parts were found in the ...