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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"tropical precipitation"”.
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Interannual variations of tropical precipitation patterns
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology, 1980.
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Dependence of tropical precipitation on changes in cross-equatorial atmosphere and ocean heat transport in global warming simulations
The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is an area of convection encircling the earth near the equator where the northern and southern hemisphere (SH) Hadley cells converge. If a forcing (e.g. aerosol emissions decline) results in a greater net influx of heat into one hemisphere the Hadley cells …
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The Effect of Orbital Forcing on the MJO’s Amplitude and Phase Speed
… to the orbital forcing, boreal winter mean precipitation increases, consistent with a stronger Hadley circulation, and the mean lower-tropospheric westerly winds shift southward over the Indo-Pacific warm pool. The increase in the tropical precipitation variance are explained using the …
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Understanding the Characteristics of Precipitation and Their Response to Climate Change
… target different characteristics of atmospheric precipitation that are not well understood. First, I focus on precipitation extremes in the extratropics and aim to understand changes in vertical velocity which control the spatial variation in the climate-change response of extratropical …
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Coupling of the intertropical convergence zone and the Hadley cells to the ocean's circulation
Patterns of tropical precipitation are sensitive to the atmosphere's energy balance and shift, for example, into the hemisphere heated most strongly by radiation and surface heat fluxes. By redistributing heat around the globe, the ocean circulation plays an important role in the atmosphere's …
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Diagnosis of the atmospheric hydrological cycle and its variability in the present-day climate
… estimates, while both reanalyses overestimate precipitation. Higher tropical precipitation and evaporation, accompanied by a slightly lower level of total column water (TCW), might suggest a more intense hydrological cycle, but this can be an ill-defined concept especially when analysis …
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Tropical orographic rainfall regimes according to the tropical rainfall measuring mission
Observing precipitation in tropical regions of complex terrain is a challenging problem. While ground-based instrumentation including rain gauge networks and radar data offer some insights, the lack of spatially complete gauge networks and radar artifacts such as severe beam blockage lead to large …
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Understanding precipitation, cold pools, and cloud arcs in the tropics
… of the RICO field campaign was to study rain in tropical marine cumuli and how this rain modifies trade wind clouds. One unexpected result that kept reappearing in satellite and radar data was the orientation of trade-wind cumuli that produced the majority of the precipitation. The majority of …