Abstract: he influence of forest loss on rainfall remains poorly understood. Addressing this challenge, Spracklen et al. recently presented a pantropical study of rainfall and land cover that showed that satellite-derived rainfall ...

Abstract: recipitation generates small-scale turbulent air flows?the energy of which ultimately dissipates to heat. The power of this process has previously been estimated to be around 2?4 W m?2 in the tropics: a value comparable ...

Abstract: AbstractHere we respond to Jaramillo et al.?s recent critique of condensation-induced atmospheric dynamics (CIAD). We show that CIAD is consistent with Newton?s laws while Jaramillo et al.?s analysis is invalid. To address ...

Abstract: n their paper ?The tropospheric land?sea warming contrast as the driver of tropical sea level pressure changes,? Bayr and Dommenget proposed a simple model of temperature-driven air redistribution to quantify the ratio ...