Global precipitation measurement: Methods, datasets and applications

FJ Tapiador, FJ Turk, W Petersen, AY Hou… - Atmospheric …, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper explores the many aspects of precipitation measurement that are relevant to
providing an accurate global assessment of this important environmental parameter …

Advances in understanding clouds from ISCCP

WB Rossow, RA Schiffer - Bulletin of the American …, 1999 - journals.ametsoc.org
This progress report on the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP)
describes changes made to produce new cloud data products (D data), examines the …

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 …

Mesoscale convective systems over southeastern South America and their relationship with the South American low-level jet

P Salio, M Nicolini, EJ Zipser - Monthly Weather Review, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
Prior studies have shown that the low-level jet is a recurrent characteristic of the
environment during the initiation and mature stages of mesoscale convective systems …

Mesoscale convective system rainfall in the Sahel

V Mathon, H Laurent, T Lebel - Journal of applied meteorology, 2002 - journals.ametsoc.org
Based on a full-resolution Meteosat dataset, an extensive climatological study of the
mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) observed by satellite over the Sahel leads to the …

[HTML][HTML] Climate perspectives in the intra–Americas seas

AM Durán-Quesada, R Sorí, P Ordoñez, L Gimeno - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Intra–Americas Seas region is known for its relevance to air–sea interaction processes,
the contrast between large water masses and a relatively small continental area, and the …

PyFLEXTRKR: A flexible feature tracking Python software for convective cloud analysis

Z Feng, J Hardin, HC Barnes, J Li… - Geoscientific Model …, 2023 - gmd.copernicus.org
This paper describes the new open-source framework PyFLEXTRKR (Python FLE**ble
object TRacKeR), a flexible atmospheric feature tracking software package with specific …

Life cycle of Sahelian mesoscale convective cloud systems

V Mathon, H Laurent - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides an eight‐year high‐resolution climatology of Sahelian mesoscale
convective systems (MCSs) during the summer. MCSs are defined as convective cloud …

An algorithm for the detection and tracking of tropical mesoscale convective systems using infrared images from geostationary satellite

T Fiolleau, R Roca - IEEE transactions on Geoscience and …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper focuses on the tracking of mesoscale convective systems (MCS) from
geostationary satellite infrared data in the tropical regions. In the past, several automatic …

Extreme summer convection in South America

U Romatschke, RA Houze Jr - Journal of Climate, 2010 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) and National
Centers for Environmental Prediction–National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP …