Abstract Purpose of Review: Review our current understanding of how precipitation is
related to its thermodynamic environment, ie, the water vapor and temperature in the …

Abstract Purpose of Review Our understanding of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and
other tropical motion systems has significantly improved in recent years. This article reviews …

Projecting climate change is a generalization problem: We extrapolate the recent past using
physical models across past, present, and future climates. Current climate models require …

Moist heatwaves in the tropics and subtropics pose substantial risks to society, yet the
dynamics governing their intensity are not fully understood. The onset of deep convection …

A westward‐propagating Rossby‐like wave signal is found to explain a large fraction of the
intraseasonal variance in cloud brightness over the Western Hemisphere. A series of …

Tropical Precipitation Evolution in a Buoyancy-Budget Framework in: Journal of the Atmospheric
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Among models participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6
(CMIP6), here we show that the magnitude of the tropical low cloud feedback, which …

Convective quasi-equilibrium (QE) and weak temperature gradient (WTG) balances are
frequently employed to study the tropical atmosphere. This study uses linearized equatorial …

The governing thermodynamics of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation (MJO) is examined using
sounding and reanalysis data. On the basis of four objective criteria, results suggest that the …

Precipitation sustains life and supports human activities, making its prediction one of the
most societally relevant challenges in weather and climate modeling. Limitations in …