Abstract: Using Arakawa's spectral representation of cumulus convection, the cloud mass flux distributions and other cloud properties are diagnostically determined from large-scale observations. Observational data over the tropical ...

Abstract: Large-scale mass, heat and moisture budgets have been computed over the GATE A/B-scale area during two priority periods in Phase 3. The computed budget results are well-correlated with the activities of the cloud clusters ...

Abstract: Large-scale heat and moisture budgets over the tropical Atlantic Ocean are examined during Phase 3 (22?30 June 1969) of the Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment (BOMEX). From the satellite cloud photographs ...

Abstract: In association with extreme anomalies in the extratropical atmosphere, numerical experiments using an atmospheric general circulation model are performed to investigate the relative impact of the anomalous snow with SST ...

Abstract: This study attempts to investigate decadal-scale climate changes in the mid- and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere in winter 1989 by using various observational data for atmospheric parameters, sea surface temperature ...

Abstract: A spectral diagnostic method of cumulus ensemble (Nitta, 1975) is compared with a bulk diagnostic method (Yanai et al., 1973), using the same data set taken in the Marshal Islands area for a 100-day period in 1956. For the ...

Abstract: Decadal climate variations in the Atlantic Ocean found in observational fields and a coupled general circulation model (CGCM) are investigated. In particular, physical processes responsible for the phase reversal are ...