Abstract: This paper develops an objective technique for estimating the mass and energy exchange in convection systems corresponding to altocumulus cumulogenitus and cumulonimbus intensities using measurements of the area change of ...

Abstract: Patterns of fluctuating cloud amount in the tropical Pacific are decomposed into individual frequency bands and presented in longitude-time and latitude-time sections. The natural variability of propagating ?clusters? is ...

Abstract: In this paper we have used time-lapse ATS-I satellite cloud photographs as our data source for the evaluation of the convective transport of latent heat from the lower troposphere to the tropical upper troposphere. The ...

Abstract: Nimbus 4 data (11.5-?m) channel and ATS 3 digitized data were analyzed for three days during April and May, 1970. Cloud-top temperature, as measured by the 11.5-?m channel of the satellite radiometer, shows a close negative ...

Abstract: Time series of areal cloud coverage over the central Pacific are studied to determine the large-scale variations of tropical disturbance activity for a four-month period in 1967. The persistent and fluctuating components ...