Latent heating contribution from precipitation systems with different sizes, depths, and intensities in the tropics

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 186-203

  Liu, Chuntao ^a   Shige, Shoichi ^b   Takayabu, Yukari N ^c   Zipser, Edward ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatology; Latent heating cooling; Mesoscale systems

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; TROPICS;

CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; DIFFERENT PROPORTIONS; LATENT HEATING/COOLING; MESO-SCALE SYSTEMS; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; PRECIPITATION SYSTEMS; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

STORMS;

CLIMATOLOGY; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; COOLING; HEATING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TRMM; TROPICAL REGION;

EID: 84920261247     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00370.1     Document Type: Article

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