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RISA Simple Moist Tropical Atmosphere Model: The Role of Cloud Radiative Forcing
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A simple moist model for the large-scale tropical atmospheric circulation is constructed by combining the simple models of Gill and Neelin and Held. The model describes the first baroclinic mode of the moist troposphere ...
Role of Tropical Clouds in Surface and Atmospheric Energy Budget
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In this paper diagnostic estimates of cloud radiative forcing (CRF) and clear-sky radiation budget at the surface and in the atmosphere, based on satellite-observed radiation budget at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) and ...
Heat Balance in the Pacific Warm Pool Atmosphere during TOGA COARE and CEPEX
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The atmosphere above the western equatorial Pacific warm pool (WP) is an important source for the dynamic and thermodynamic forcing of the atmospheric general circulation. This study uses a high-resolution reanalysis and ...
Vertical Moist Thermodynamic Structure and Spatial–Temporal Evolution of the MJO in AIRS Observations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The atmospheric moisture and temperature profiles from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)/Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit on the NASA Aqua mission, in combination with the precipitation from the Tropical Rainfall ...
Vertical Moist Thermodynamic Structure of the Madden–Julian Oscillation in Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Retrievals: An Update and a Comparison to ECMWF Interim Re-Analysis
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The large-scale vertical moist thermodynamic structure of the Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO) was documented using the first 2.5 yr (2002?05) of version 4 atmospheric specific humidity and temperature profiles from the ...
Climate Model Evaluation in the Presence of Observational Uncertainty: Precipitation Indices over the Contiguous United States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractClimate model evaluation is complicated by the presence of observational uncertainty. In this study we analyze daily precipitation indices and compare multiple gridded observational and reanalysis products with ...
The Apparent Water Vapor Sinks and Heat Sources Associated with the Intraseasonal Oscillation of the Indian Summer Monsoon
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he possibility of using remote sensing retrievals to estimate apparent water vapor sinks and heat sources is explored. The apparent water vapor sinks and heat sources are estimated from a combination of remote sensing, ...
Closing the Global Water Vapor Budget with AIRS Water Vapor, MERRA Reanalysis, TRMM and GPCP Precipitation, and GSSTF Surface Evaporation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he authors investigate if atmospheric water vapor from remote sensing retrievals obtained from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder/Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AIRS) and the water vapor budget from the NASA Goddard Space ...
El Niño–Southern Oscillation in Tropical and Midlatitude Column Ozone
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he impacts of El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the tropical total column ozone, the tropical tropopause pressure, and the 3.5-yr ozone signal in the midlatitude total column ozone were examined using the Goddard Earth ...
A Decade of Spaceborne Observations of the Arctic Atmosphere: Novel Insights from NASA’s AIRS Instrument
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: rctic sea ice is declining rapidly and its annual ice extent minima reached record lows twice during the last decade. Large environmental and socioeconomic implications related to sea ice reduction in a warming world ...