Meteorological Monographs: Recent submissions
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Multiscale Temporal Mean Features of Perturbation Kinetic Energy and Its Budget in the Tropics: Review and Computation
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he authors examined the maintenance mechanisms of perturbation kinetic energy (PKE) in the tropical regions for multiple time scales by computing and analyzing its budget equation. The emphasis has been placed on the mean ... -
Simulations of the Tropical General Circulation with a Multiscale Global Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)loud processes play a central role in the dynamics of the tropical atmosphere, but for many years the shortcomings of cloud parameterizations have limited our ability to simulate and understand important tropical weather ... -
Parameterization of Microphysical Processes in Convective Clouds in Global Climate Models
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he microphysical processes inside convective clouds play an important role in climate. They directly control the amount of detrainment of cloud hydrometeor and water vapor from updrafts. The detrained water substance in ... -
A Mechanism of the MJO Invoking Scale Interactions
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)ter distinguishes the mechanism of tropical convective disturbances, such as a hurricane, from that of the Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO). The hurricane is maintained by organized convection around the azimuth. In a ... -
Monsoon Convection in the Maritime Continent: Interaction of Large-Scale Motion and Complex Terrain
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he Asian monsoon is a planetary-scale circulation system powered by the release of latent heat, but important features of deep convection and rainfall distribution cannot be adequately represented by the large-scale patterns. ... -
Six Decades of Tropical Meteorology Research—A Retrospective on Michio Yanai’s Life and Career
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)his monograph on convection-coupled systems in the tropics was inspired by the life and career of Professor Michio Yanai, whose major contributions to the subject spanned more than five decades. From a distant perspective, ... -
Prologue: Tropical Meteorology 1960–2010—Personal Recollections
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)me consists of some papers presented at the AMS Symposium held to honor the memory of the late Professor Michio Yanai as well as additional works inspired by his research. By the nature of this volume, many of the contributed ... -
TRMM Latent Heating Retrieval: Applications and Comparisons with Field Campaigns and Large-Scale Analyses
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)anai and coauthors utilized the meteorological data collected from a sounding network to present a pioneering work in 1973 on thermodynamic budgets, which are referred to as the apparent heat source (Q1) and apparent ... -
Multiscale Modeling of the Moist-Convective Atmosphere
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)ne of the most important contributions of Michio Yanai to tropical meteorology is the introduction of the concepts of apparent heat source Q1 and apparent moisture sink Q2 in the large-scale heat and moisture budgets of ... -
Influence of Cloud Microphysics and Radiation on Tropical Cyclone Structure and Motion
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he authors survey a series of modeling studies that have examined the influences that cloud microphysical processes can have on tropical cyclone (TC) motion, the strength and breadth of the wind field, inner-core diabatic ... -
A Synoptic-Scale Cold-Reservoir Hypothesis on the Origin of the Mature-Stage Super Cloud Cluster: A Case Study with a Global Nonhydrostatic Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)his chapter proposes a working assumption as a way of conceptual simplification of the origin of Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO)-associated convection, or super cloud cluster (SCC). To develop the simplification, the ... -
Models for Multiscale Interactions. Part II: Madden–Julian Oscillation, Moisture, and Convective Momentum Transport
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)t is well known that the envelope of the Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO) consists of smaller-scale convective systems, including mesoscale convective systems (MCS), tropical cyclones, and synoptic-scale waves called ... -
Characterizing and Understanding Cloud Ice and Radiation Budget Biases in Global Climate Models and Reanalysis
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he authors present an observationally based evaluation of the vertically resolved cloud ice water content (CIWC) and vertically integrated cloud ice water path (CIWP) as well as radiative shortwave flux downward at the ... -
A Further Look at Q1 and Q2 from TOGA COARE
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)wo features of Yanai et al.?s profiles of Q1 and Q2?the commonly observed double-peak structure to Q2 and an inflection in the Q1 profile below the melting level?are explored using estimates of convective and stratiform ... -
Dr. Yanai’s Contributions to the Discovery and Science of the MJO
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)his chapter reviews Professor Michio Yanai?s contributions to the discovery and science of the Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO). Professor Yanai?s work on equatorial waves played an inspirational role in the MJO discovery ... -
Models for Multiscale Interactions. Part I: A Multicloud Model Parameterization
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)n this chapter, a model parameterization for organized tropical convection and convectively coupled tropical waves is presented. The model is based on the main three cloud types, congestus, deep, and stratiform, that are ...