Abstract: Analyses of moisture and mean tropospheric enthalpy distributions based on FGGE data are described and interpreted for the months of May and June 1979. Their detailed spatial characteristics are inferred using 15-day means ...

Abstract: Usig data on a 100 km-scale from Phase III of GATE, the kinematic and thermodynamic, properties of the mesoscale environment in which convective clouds of varying intensities exist are investigated. Classifications into ...

Abstract: This paper describes the impact on the tropical simulation in the ECMWF model of various changes to the treatment of physical processes, with particular emphasis on the onset of the Asian summer monsoon. A series of 10-day ...