Monsoons, ITCZs, and the concept of the global monsoon

R Geen, S Bordoni, DS Battisti, K Hui - Reviews of Geophysics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's tropical and subtropical rainbands, such as Intertropical Convergence Zones (ITCZs)
and monsoons, are complex systems, governed by both large‐scale constraints on the …

The West African Sahel: A review of recent studies on the rainfall regime and its interannual variability

SE Nicholson - International Scholarly Research Notices, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The West African Sahel is well known for the severe droughts that ravaged the region in the
1970s and 1980s. Meteorological research on the region has flourished during the last …

A global high‐resolution mesoscale convective system database using satellite‐derived cloud tops, surface precipitation, and tracking

Z Feng, LR Leung, N Liu, J Wang… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A new methodology is developed to construct a global (60° S–60° N) long‐term (2000–
2019) high‐resolution (∼ 10‐km h) mesoscale convective system (MCS) database by …

The variable nature of convection in the tropics and subtropics: A legacy of 16 years of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite

RA Houze Jr, KL Rasmussen, MD Zuluaga… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
For over 16 years, the Precipitation Radar of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
(TRMM) satellite detected the three‐dimensional structure of significantly precipitating …

Vertical structure and physical processes of the Madden‐Julian oscillation: Exploring key model physics in climate simulations

X Jiang, DE Waliser, PK Xavier, J Petch… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aimed at reducing deficiencies in representing the Madden‐Julian oscillation (MJO) in
general circulation models (GCMs), a global model evaluation project on vertical structure …

[LIBRO][B] Cloud dynamics

RA Houze Jr - 2014 - books.google.com
As models of the Earth/atmosphere system and observations become ever more
sophisticated, and concerns about climate change and societal impacts of extreme weather …

Mesoscale convective systems

RA Houze Jr - Reviews of Geophysics, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) have regions of both convective and stratiform
precipitation, and they develop mesoscale circulations as they mature. The upward motion …

[HTML][HTML] Precipitation characteristics in eighteen coupled climate models

A Dai - Journal of climate, 2006 - journals.ametsoc.org
Precipitation Characteristics in Eighteen Coupled Climate Models in: Journal of Climate
Volume 19 Issue 18 (2006) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation Logo Logo Logo Logo …

Where are the most intense thunderstorms on Earth?

EJ Zipser, DJ Cecil, C Liu, SW Nesbitt… - Bulletin of the …, 2006 - journals.ametsoc.org
The instruments on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite have been
observing storms as well as rainfall since December 1997. This paper shows the results of a …

100 years of research on mesoscale convective systems

RA Houze Jr - Meteorological Monographs, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
When cumulonimbus clouds aggregate, develo** into a single entity with precipitation
covering a horizontal scale of hundreds of kilometers, they are called mesoscale convective …