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RISCloud Regime Variability over the Azores and Its Application to Climate Model Evaluation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: rom its location on the subtropics?midlatitude boundary, the Azores is influenced by both the subtropical high pressure and the midlatitude baroclinic storm regimes and therefore experiences a wide range of cloud structures, ...
Time Scales of Variability of the Tropical Atmosphere Derived from Cloud-Defined Weather States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The recent analysis of Rossow et al. used a clustering technique to derive six tropical weather states (WS) based on mesoscale cloud-type patterns and documented the spatial distribution of those WS and the modes of ...
A New Climatology for Investigating Storm Influences in and on the Extratropics
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he NASA Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction (MAP) Climatology of Mid-Latitude Storm Area (MCMS) project is a set of tools for examining midlatitude cyclones in model-generated data. The MCMS software has two primary tasks. ...
Global Patterns of Cloud Optical Thickness Variation with Temperature
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) dataset is used to correlate variations of cloud optical thickness and cloud temperature in today's atmosphere. The analysis focuses on low clouds in order to ...
The Radiative, Cloud, and Thermodynamic Properties of the Major Tropical Western Pacific Cloud Regimes
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This study investigates the radiative, cloud, and thermodynamic characteristics of the atmosphere separated into objectively defined cloud regimes in the tropical western Pacific (TWP). A cluster analysis is applied to 2 ...
Cloud and Radiation Variations Associated with Northern Midlatitude Low and High Sea Level Pressure Regimes
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A global meteorological dataset, a global satellite dataset, and a radiative transfer model are combined to map the cloud types in low, near-normal, and high sea level pressure regimes in the northern midlatitudes, and to ...
Atmospheric Diabatic Heating in Different Weather States and the General Circulation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: nalysis of multiple global satellite products identifies distinctive weather states of the atmosphere from the mesoscale pattern of cloud properties and quantifies the associated diabatic heating/cooling by radiative flux ...
The Data Integration for Model Evaluation Web Site: A One-Stop Shop for Model Evaluation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This paper introduces the contents of the Global Energy and Water Experiment (GEWEX) Cloud System Study (GCSS) Data Integration for Model Evaluation (DIME) Web site. The Web site is a resource created for atmospheric ...
GCM Simulations of the Aerosol Indirect Effect: Sensitivity to Cloud Parameterization and Aerosol Burden
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In this paper the coupling of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) general circulation model (GCM) to an online sulfur chemistry model and source models for organic matter and sea salt that is used to estimate ...
Global Weather States and Their Properties from Passive and Active Satellite Cloud Retrievals
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: n this study, the authors apply a clustering algorithm to International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) cloud optical thickness?cloud top pressure histograms in order to derive weather states (WSs) for the ...