Abstract: Tropical cold point tropopause (CPT) characteristics have been calculated using ECMWF reanalyses and high resolution radiosonde soundings obtained in TOGA COARE as well as operational sounding data. It is found that ECMWF ...

Abstract: There has been increasing recognition of the role of the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) in determining stratospheric water vapor concentrations?the TTL being a layer of transition between air showing tropospheric properties ...

Abstract: Clouds cool the climate system by reflecting shortwave radiation and warm it by increasing the atmospheric greenhouse. Previous studies have shown that in tropical regions of deep convection there is a near cancellation ...