Abstract: Precipitation estimation over the tropical oceans is commonly performed using passive infrared (IR) measurements of cloud-top brightness temperature from geostationary satellites to infer the location of deep convection. ...

Abstract: This paper examines the origins of a secondary nocturnal maximum in cloudiness and precipitation in southwestern Amazonia, a diurnal feature observed previously by many investigators. Analysis is based on satellite, radar, ...

Abstract: he seasonal and interannual variability of the structure, evolution, and propagation of midlatitude cyclones in the southeast United States are studied using a composite analysis. In the upper levels, the composites show ...

Abstract: wo features of Yanai et al.?s profiles of Q1 and Q2?the commonly observed double-peak structure to Q2 and an inflection in the Q1 profile below the melting level?are explored using estimates of convective and stratiform ...

Abstract: An active day during the Coupled Ocean?Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE) Intensive Observation Period (IOP) is examined in which nine convective systems evolved and moved eastward across the region of shipboard radar ...

Abstract: A comparison of the submonthly variability of atmospheric circulation and organization of convection in South America during January?February?March of 1998 (JFM98) and January?February?March of 1999 (JFM99) is presented. ...

Abstract: It has long been known that trade wind cumulus and deep cumulonimbus represent primary components of the broad spectrum of cumulus clouds in the Tropics, which has led to the concept of a bimodal distribution of tropical ...

Abstract: AbstractMillions of people in the United States regularly acquire information from weather forecasts for a wide variety of reasons. The rapid growth in mobile device technology has created a convenient means for people to ...

Abstract: n this study, a 10-yr (1998?2007) climatology of observations from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite is used to study regional mechanisms of monsoon onset across tropical and subtropical South America. ...

Abstract: Vertical structures of 2-day waves and the Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO) are projected onto vertical normal modes for a quiescent tropical troposphere. Three modes capture the gross tropospheric structure of 2-day waves, ...