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Improving Simulations of Convective Systems from TRMM LBA: Easterly and Westerly Regimes

Source: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences:;2007:;Volume( 064 ):;issue: 004:;page 1141

Author(s): Lang, S.; Tao, W-K.; Simpson, J.; Cifelli, R.; Rutledge, S.; Olson, W.; Halverson, J.

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: The 3D Goddard Cumulus Ensemble model is used to simulate two convective events observed during the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Large-Scale Biosphere?Atmosphere (TRMM LBA) experiment in Brazil. These two events ...

Heavy Thunderstorms Observed Over Land by the Nimbus 7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer

Source: Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology:;1983:;volume( 022 ):;issue: 006:;page 1041

Author(s): Spencer, R. W.; Olson, W. S.; Rongzhang, Wu; Martin, D. W.; Weinman, J. A.; Santek, D. A.

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: In an examination of microwave data from the Nimbus 7 satellite, brightness temperatures were found that were much lower than those expected for the radiation emanating from rain-producing clouds. Every case of very cold ...

Structure of Florida Thunderstorms Using High-Altitude Aircraft Radiometer and Radar Observations

Source: Journal of Applied Meteorology:;1996:;volume( 035 ):;issue: 010:;page 1736

Author(s): Heymsfield, G. M.; Shepherd, J. M.; Bidwell, S. W.; Boncyk, W. C.; Caylor, I. J.; Ameen, S.; Olson, W. S.

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of a unique radar and radiometer dataset from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ER-2 high-altitude aircraft overlying Florida thunderstorms on 5 October 1993 during ...

Retrieved Vertical Profiles of Latent Heat Release Using TRMM Rainfall Products for February 1998

Source: Journal of Applied Meteorology:;2001:;volume( 040 ):;issue: 006:;page 957

Author(s): Tao, W-K.; Lang, S.; Olson, W. S.; Meneghini, R.; Yang, S.; Simpson, J.; Kummerow, C.; Smith, E.; Halverson, J.

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: This paper represents the first attempt to use Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) rainfall information to estimate the four-dimensional latent heating structure over the global Tropics for one month (February 1998). ...

Use of High-Resolution Satellite Observations to Evaluate Cloud and Precipitation Statistics from Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations. Part I: South China Sea Monsoon Experiment

Source: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences:;2007:;Volume( 064 ):;issue: 012:;page 4309

Author(s): Zhou, Y. P.; Tao, W.-K.; Hou, A. Y.; Olson, W. S.; Shie, C.-L.; Lau, K.-M.; Chou, M.-D.; Lin, X.; Grecu, M.

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: Cloud and precipitation simulated using the three-dimensional (3D) Goddard Cumulus Ensemble (GCE) model are compared to Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI) and Precipitation Radar (PR) rainfall ...

The Evolution of the Goddard Profiling Algorithm (GPROF) for Rainfall Estimation from Passive Microwave Sensors

Source: Journal of Applied Meteorology:;2001:;volume( 040 ):;issue: 011:;page 1801

Author(s): Kummerow, Christian; Hong, Y.; Olson, W. S.; Yang, S.; Adler, R. F.; McCollum, J.; Ferraro, R.; Petty, G.; Shin, D-B.; Wilheit, T. T.

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: This paper describes the latest improvements applied to the Goddard profiling algorithm (GPROF), particularly as they apply to the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). Most of these improvements, however, are ...

The Status of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) after Two Years in Orbit

Source: Journal of Applied Meteorology:;2000:;volume( 039 ):;issue: 012:;page 1965

Author(s): Kummerow, C.; Simpson, J.; Thiele, O.; Barnes, W.; Chang, A. T. C.; Stocker, E.; Adler, R. F.; Hou, A.; Kakar, R.; Wentz, F.; Ashcroft, P.; Kozu, T.; Hong, Y.; Okamoto, K.; Iguchi, T.; Kuroiwa, H.; Im, E.; Haddad, Z.; Huffman, G.; Ferrier, B.; Olson, W. S.; Zipser, E.; Smith, E. A.; Wilheit, T. T.; North, G.; Krishnamurti, T.; Nakamura, K.

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite was launched on 27 November 1997, and data from all the instruments first became available approximately 30 days after the launch. Since then, much progress has been ...

Retrieval of Latent Heating from TRMM Measurements

Source: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society:;2006:;volume( 087 ):;issue: 011:;page 1555

Author(s): Tao, W-K.; Smith, E. A.; Adler, R. F.; Hou, A. Y.; Meneghini, R.; Simpson, J.; Haddad, Z. S.; Iguchi, T.; Satoh, S.; Kakar, R.; Krishnamurti, T. N.; Kummerow, C. D.; Lang, S.; Nakamura, K.; Nakazawa, T.; Okamoto, K.; Shige, S.; Olson, W. S.; Takayabu, Y.; Tripoli, G. J.; Yang, S.

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: Rainfall is a fundamental process within the Earth's hydrological cycle because it represents a principal forcing term in surface water budgets, while its energetics corollary, latent heating, is the principal source of ...

Results of WetNet PIP-2 Project

Source: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences:;1998:;Volume( 055 ):;issue: 009:;page 1483

Author(s): Smith, E. A.; Lamm, J. E.; Adler, R.; Alishouse, J.; Aonashi, K.; Barrett, E.; Bauer, P.; Berg, W.; Chang, A.; Ferraro, R.; Ferriday, J.; Goodman, S.; Grody, N.; Kidd, C.; Kniveton, D.; Kummerow, C.; Liu, G.; Marzano, F.; Mugnai, A.; Olson, W.; Petty, G.; Shibata, A.; Spencer, R.; Wentz, F.; Wilheit, T.; Zipser, E.

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: The second WetNet Precipitation Intercomparison Project (PIP-2) evaluates the performance of 20 satellite precipitation retrieval algorithms, implemented for application with Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) passive ...

TRMM Latent Heating Retrieval: Applications and Comparisons with Field Campaigns and Large-Scale Analyses

Source: Meteorological Monographs:;2016:;Volume( 56 ):;page 2.1

Author(s): Tao, W.-K.; Takayabu, Y. N.; Lang, S.; Shige, S.; Olson, W.; Hou, A.; Skofronick-Jackson, G.; Jiang, X.; Zhang, C.; Lau, W.; Krishnamurti, T.; Waliser, D.; Grecu, M.; Ciesielski, P. E.; Johnson, R. H.; Houze, R.; Kakar, R.; Nakamura, K.; Braun, S.; Hagos, S.; Oki, R.; Bhardwaj, A.

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

Abstract: anai and coauthors utilized the meteorological data collected from a sounding network to present a pioneering work in 1973 on thermodynamic budgets, which are referred to as the apparent heat source (Q1) and apparent ...

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