Abstract: Cloud retrieval from satellite data in the regions of snow and ice cover is generally acknowledged to be difficult with the present generation of meteorological satellites. Despite potential advances to be made in this ...

Abstract: The Burger distribution, which is characterized by two parameters, mean cloud amount and scale distance, is evaluated in terms of its usefulness for representing cloud amount frequency distributions, and as a means of ...

Abstract: The potential impacts of deforestation in the humid Tropics are examined using a version of the National Center for Atmospheric Research's CCM1 coupled with the Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme package. Tropical ...

Abstract: This is the second in a pair of papers in which the possible impacts of tropical deforestation are examined using a version of the NCAR CCM1. The emphasis in this paper is on the influence of tropical deforestation on the ...

Abstract: Two rare but naturally occurring isotopes of water, 1H218O and 1H2H16O, are becoming of practical use in diagnosis of climate and earth system model performance. Their value as tracers and validation tools in hydrological ...

Abstract: This paper examines changes in isotopic abundances for 18O and deuterium in precipitation over the Amazon basin based on data in the Global Network on Isotopes in Precipitation (GNIP) database from the International Atomic ...

Abstract: Increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 will not only modify climate, they will also likely increase the water-use efficiency of plants by decreasing stomatal openings. The effect of the imposition of ?doubled stomatal ...

Abstract: The very limited instrumental record makes extensive analyses of the natural variability of global tropical cyclone activities difficult in most of the tropical cyclone basins. However, in the two regions where reasonably ...