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RISClouds in Weather and Climate: The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project at 30: What Do We Know and What Do We Still Need to Know?
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
A General Circulation Model of a Venus-Like Atmosphere
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A three-dimensional general circulation model of a slowly rotating, massive atmosphere is forced with an axisymmetric radiative heating/cooling distribution to explore the heat and momentum budgets established in this type ...
The Clouds of Venus: II. An Investigation of the Influence of Coagulation on the Observed Droplet Size Distribution
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Using an approximate numerical technique, we investigate the influence of coagulation, sedimentation and turbulent motions on the observed droplet size distribution in the upper layers of the Venus clouds. If the cloud ...
Measuring Cloud Properties from Space: A Review
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A brief review of observations of clouds using satellites highlights open issues and directions for future studies. The key one is improved treatment of the effects of small-scale spatial inhomogeneity in remote sensing ...
Regional and Seasonal Variations of Surface Reflectance from Satellite Observations at 0.6 μm
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A global series of seasonal visible surface reflectance maps derived from NOAA-5 Scanning Radiometer observations is presented. Methods for isolating clear-sky observations from satellite data are evaluated and the magnitude ...
Selection of a Map Grid for Data Analysis and Archival
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Aggregation of atmospheric data using the common equal-angle (latitude-longitude) map grid is shown to introduce an unnecessary degradation of data quality compared with aggregation using an equal-area grid. Analysis of ...
Interaction of Tropical Deep Convection with the Large-Scale Circulation in the MJO
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: To better understand the interaction between tropical deep convection and the Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO), tropical cloud regimes are defined by cluster analysis of International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project ...
Evaluation of a Statistical Model of Cloud Vertical Structure Using Combined CloudSat and CALIPSO Cloud Layer Profiles
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A model of the three-dimensional distribution of clouds was developed from the statistics of cloud layer occurrence from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) and the statistics of cloud vertical ...
Contributions of Individual Atmospheric Diabatic Heating Processes to the Generation of Available Potential Energy
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he generation of zonal and eddy available potential energy (Gz and Ge) as formulated by Lorenz are computed on a global-, daily-, and synoptic-scale basis to consider the contribution of each diabatic heating component ...
Seasonal Variation of Liquid and Ice Water Path in Nonprecipitating Clouds over Oceans
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Seasonal variations of liquid and ice water paths (LWP and IWP) in nonprecipitating clouds over oceans are estimated for 4 months by combining the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) and Special Sensor ...