Abstract: This study further examines the errors in estimating surface evaporation using monthly mean surface atmospheric variables from the moored buoys in the equatorial Pacific. Results from two significantly different bulk ...

Abstract: The effect of cumulus convection on the Asian summer monsoon circulation is investigated, using a general circulation model. Two simulations for the summer months (June, July, and August) are performed, one parameterizing ...

Abstract: This study investigates to what extent monthly mean surface meteorological variables can be used to estimate surface turbulent fluxes in the equatorial Pacific. The two-year data from the TOGA TAO moored buoy array are ...

Abstract: The role of convection parameterization in the formation of double ITCZ and associated upper-ocean biases in the NCAR Community Climate System Model, version 3 (CCSM3) is investigated by comparing the simulations using the ...

Abstract: Warm SST bias underlying the spurious southern ITCZ has long been recognized as one of the main causes for double-ITCZ bias in coupled GCMs in the central Pacific. This study demonstrates that the NCAR CESM1.2 can still ...

Abstract: A scheme is developed to parameterize the vertical transport of momentum by cumulus clouds, in which the effect of a cloud-induced pressure field is included. In addition, a new form for momentum exchange between clouds ...

Abstract: The parameterization theory developed in Part I is applied to compute the vertical transport of momentum by cumulus clouds for the average of six convective periods in Phase III of GATE. Special attention is paid to the ...

Abstract: The upper-air sounding data from PRE-STORM are used to investigate the convective stabilization effect on the large-scale atmosphere. To facilitate comparison between different stages of cumulus convection, the data are ...

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 ...

Abstract: Moored buoy data from the equatorial Pacific are analyzed to investigate the relationship between sea surface temperature (SST) and latent heat flux from the ocean. It is found that at low SST the latent heat flux increases ...