Abstract: Analyses of the frequency of rain occurrence over the equatorial Atlantic Ocean from two sources are compared: a nineteenth-century journal publication based on ship's logbook entries, and a 3-yr average, 1998?2000, of ...

Abstract: Probability distributions of measured radar reflectivity from the precipitation radar (PR) on board the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite show a small, counterintuitive increase in the midrange, 20?34 ...

Abstract: Observations from the precipitation radar aboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite provide the first opportunity to map vertical structure properties of rain over the entire Tropics and subtropics. Storm ...

Abstract: An analysis of temporal variations in gamma parameters of raindrop spectra is presented utilizing surface-based observations from the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Couple Ocean-Atmosphere Experiment. An observed dramatic ...

Abstract: Daily observations of albedo and outgoing terrestrial radiation derived from NOAA Scanning Radiometer measurements are used to relate cloudiness variations to regional features of the general circulation and to estimate ...

Abstract: The interannual variability (IAV) in monthly averaged outgoing infrared radiation (IR, from the NOAA polar orbiting satellites) is observed to be larger during summer than during winter over the north Pacific Ocean. A ...

Abstract: In the presence of 3D turbulence, peak horizontal velocity estimates from an idealized Doppler profiler are found to be positively biased due to an incomplete specification of the vertical velocity field. The magnitude of ...

Abstract: Outgoing infrared radiation (IR) values inferred from radiance measurements in the water vapor window (10.5?12.5 ?m) taken at approximately 0900 and 2100 LT by scanning radiometers aboard the polar orbiting NOAA satellites ...

Abstract: The potential of zonal asymmetry as a sensitivity mechanism for the earth's climate is investigated through a simple extension of an energy balance climate model. The results of this model are compared with the reconstruction ...

Abstract: It is known that spatially averaged rainfall rate ?R? is highly correlated with the fractional area (F) of rain rate exceeding a preset threshold (τ), when the area is large enough to include numerous convective systems ...