Abstract: Multilag singular value decomposition (MLSVD) analysis is developed and applied to diagnosing the impact of interannual variations of outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) on tropical stratospheric temperature changes. MLSVD ...

Abstract: Generalized maximum covariance analysis (GMCA) has been developed and applied to diagnosing the relationships between ENSO tropospheric heating variations and tropical stratospheric waves. GMCA identifies the most important ...

Abstract: Comparisons are made between the spatial patterns of solar and thermal fluxes of radiation calculated by the UCLA general circulation model and observations. The latter include estimates at the Pacific Ocean surface of the ...

Abstract: Diabatic heating rates calculated in the UCLA general circulation model are analyzed. The heating rates are for the December?January?February season for the mean of four climatological runs and the mean of four runs with ...

Abstract: Zonal averages of low, middle and total cloud amount estimates derived from measurements from Nimbus-7 have been analyzed for the six-year period April 1979 through March 1985. The globally and zonally averaged values of ...

Abstract: Monthly means of selected variables of the 2.5° International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) C2 total cloud cover (CC), cloud-top pressure (CTP), and cloud water (CW) are statistically related to sea surface ...

Abstract: An additionally constrained multiple linear regression technique is outlined for use with the prediction or specification of fields of geophysical variables. The additional constraints are the requirement that the predictions ...

Abstract: A linear shallow water model on an equatorial ?-plane is driven by three different estimates of the heating rate perturbation during seven seasons of a composite El Niño episode. In two cases the heating perturbations for ...

Abstract: A shallow water equations model of the tropical atmosphere is developed and tested. The model includes a simple parameterization of convective rainfall so that the model heating is a function of fixed sea surface temperatures ...

Abstract: The relationships between the patterns of monthly sea surface temperature (SST) variations and those of precipitation in the tropical Pacific Ocean region are examined. The rainfall data utilized are derived from satellite ...