Relationships between water vapor path and precipitation over the tropical oceans

CS Bretherton, ME Peters, LE Back - Journal of climate, 2004 - journals.ametsoc.org
The relationship between water vapor path W and surface precipitation rate P over tropical
oceanic regions is analyzed using 4 yr of gridded daily SSM/I satellite microwave radiometer …

[HTML][HTML] The weak temperature gradient approximation and balanced tropical moisture waves

AH Sobel, J Nilsson, LM Polvani - Journal of the atmospheric …, 2001 - journals.ametsoc.org
Horizontal temperature gradients are small in the tropical atmosphere, as a consequence of
the smallness of the Coriolis parameter near the equator. This provides a strong constraint …

[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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[HTML][HTML] Organization of tropical convection in low vertical wind shears: The role of cold pools

AM Tompkins - Journal of the atmospheric sciences, 2001 - journals.ametsoc.org
Organization of Tropical Convection in Low Vertical Wind Shears: The Role of Cold Pools in:
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Organization of tropical convection in low vertical wind shears: The role of water vapor

AM Tompkins - Journal of the atmospheric sciences, 2001 - journals.ametsoc.org
A modeling study is conducted to gain insight into the factors that control the intensity and
organization of tropical convection, and in particular to examine if organization occurs in the …

The transition to strong convection

JD Neelin, O Peters, K Hales - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
Recent work has shown that observations of tropical precipitation conform to properties
associated with critical phenomena in other systems. Here some of these universal …

Variability of midtropospheric moisture and its effect on cloud-top height distribution during TOGA COARE

RG Brown, C Zhang - Journal of the atmospheric sciences, 1997 - journals.ametsoc.org
The tropical western Pacific warm pool is often generalized to be a region of heavy
precipitation. This conceptis useful in constructing simplified models of the tropical …

The onset of convection in the Madden–Julian oscillation

SR Kemball-Cook, BC Weare - Journal of climate, 2001 - journals.ametsoc.org
An observational study of the onset of convection in the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO)
was performed. Composites of radiosonde data from the Comprehensive Aerological …

Deep convection and column water vapor over tropical land versus tropical ocean: A comparison between the Amazon and the tropical western Pacific

KA Schiro, JD Neelin, DK Adams… - Journal of the …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
The relationships between the onset of tropical deep convection, column water vapor
(CWV), and other measures of conditional instability are analyzed with 2 yr of data from the …

Convection in TOGA COARE: Horizontal scale, morphology, and rainfall production

TM Rickenbach, SA Rutledge - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 1998 - journals.ametsoc.org
The occurrence frequency and rainfall production of mesoscale convective systems (MCSs)
relative to smaller groups of convective clouds over the tropical oceans is not well known …