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 …

Wavelet analysis for geophysical applications

P Kumar, E Foufoula‐Georgiou - Reviews of geophysics, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Wavelet transforms originated in geophysics in the early 1980s for the analysis of seismic
signals. Since then, significant mathematical advances in wavelet theory have enabled a …

Confronting the challenge of modeling cloud and precipitation microphysics

H Morrison, M van Lier‐Walqui… - Journal of advances …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the atmosphere, microphysics refers to the microscale processes that affect cloud and
precipitation particles and is a key linkage among the various components of Earth's …

Strong increase in convective precipitation in response to higher temperatures

P Berg, C Moseley, JO Haerter - Nature Geoscience, 2013 - nature.com
Precipitation changes can affect society more directly than variations in most other
meteorological observables,,, but precipitation is difficult to characterize because of …

[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 …

The status of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) after two years in orbit

C Kummerow, J Simpson, O Thiele… - Journal of Applied …, 2000 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite was launched on 27
November 1997, and data from all the instruments first became available approximately 30 …

Stratiform precipitation in regions of convection: A meteorological paradox?

RA Houze Jr - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 1997 - journals.ametsoc.org
It was once generally thought that stratiform precipitation was something occurring primarily,
if not exclusively, in middle latitudes—in baroclinic cyclones and fronts. Early radar …

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 …

Structure and evolution of mesoscale convective systems: Sensitivity to cloud microphysics in convection‐permitting simulations over the United States

Z Feng, LR Leung, RA Houze Jr… - Journal of Advances …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Regional climate simulations over the continental United States were conducted for the
2011 warm season using the Weather Research and Forecasting model at convection …

[HTML][HTML] Trimodal characteristics of tropical convection

RH Johnson, TM Rickenbach, SA Rutledge… - Journal of …, 1999 - journals.ametsoc.org
Trimodal Characteristics of Tropical Convection in: Journal of Climate Volume 12 Issue 8 (1999)
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