Abstract: easonal and intraseasonal differences in mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) over South Asia are examined using A-Train satellites, a ground-based lightning network, and reanalysis fields. Premonsoon (April?May) MCSs occur ...

Abstract: haracteristics of mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) in regions affected by the Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO) are investigated using a database of MCSs observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) ...

Abstract: bservations from A-Train satellites and other datasets show that mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) affect the water vapor and ice content of the tropical tropopause transition layer (TTL). The largest MCSs with radar ...

Abstract: atellite observations of temperature, optically thin cirrus clouds, and trace gases derived from the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC), Cloud?Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder ...

Abstract: The geolocation of lightning flashes observed by spaceborne optical sensors depends upon a priori assumptions of the cloud-top height (or, more generally, the height of the radiant emitter) as observed by the satellite. ...

Abstract: Cloud fields based on the first three years of data from the Cloud?Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) mission are used to investigate the relationship between cirrus within the tropical ...