Interactions between warm rain clouds and atmospheric preconditioning for deep convection in the tropics

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Rapp, Anita D ^a   Kummerow, Christian D ^b   Fowler, Laura ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; MOISTURE; NATURAL CONVECTION; RAIN GAGES; TROPICS;

CLOUD LIQUID WATER PATH; CLOUD WATER; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; CONVECTIVE EVENTS; CUMULUS CONVECTION; DEEP CONVECTION; MULTI SENSOR; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRECIPITATING CLOUDS; PRECIPITATION EFFICIENCY; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SST ANOMALIES; THERMODYNAMIC ANOMALIES; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION SATELLITES; WARM SEASONS;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD WATER; CUMULUS; EVAPORATION; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMIDITY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MOISTURE TRANSFER; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TRMM; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84055211805     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016143     Document Type: Article

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