Spectral retrieval of latent heating profiles from TRMM PR data. Part IV: comparisons of lookup tables from two-and three-dimensional cloud-resolving model simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 5577-5594

  Shige, Shoichi ^a   Takayabu, Yukari N ^b,c,d   KIDA, Satoshi ^a   Tao, Wei Kuo ^e   Zeng, Xiping ^e,f   Yokoyama, Chie ^b   L'ecuyer, Tristan ^g  

^a Osaka City University   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^g Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-D MODEL; 3D MODELS; 3D SIMULATIONS; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CLOUD-RESOLVING MODEL SIMULATIONS; CONVECTIVE HEATING; COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE RESPONSE EXPERIMENTS; LOOK UP TABLE; MELTING LEVELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION RATES; RAIN TYPE; SOUTH CHINA SEA MONSOON EXPERIMENTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TROPICAL CLOUDS; TROPICAL OCEAN; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION PRECIPITATION RADARS; UPWARD MOTION;

EXPERIMENTS; HEATING; MELTING; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TROPICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ESTIMATION METHOD; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; STRATIFORM CLOUD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOGA-COARE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 76649098521     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2919.1     Document Type: Article

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