Classification of Tropical Precipitating Systems Using Wind Profiler...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......algorithm to classify tropical precipitating systems has been described in a companion...of different types of tropical precipitating systems over Gadanki, India. The shallow...identifying different types of precipitating systems is also examined. 1. Introduction...

synoptic scale

A Dictionary of Weather;      66 words ...synoptic scale Weather phenomena that are c. 250–2000 km across, on the scale of continents or oceans, and thus intermediate between planetary-scale...

On the equilibrium spectrum of transient waves in the atmosphere

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......midlatitude troposphere has a maximum at a synoptic scale. The same is true of the transient...yields a maximum of heat flux at a synoptic scale. This is shown for the different seasons...atmosphere have shown them to be of synoptic scale and baroclinic in nature (Charney 1971...

Radar-Observed Characteristics of Precipitating Systems during NAME 2004

Journal of Climate;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Sierra Madre Occidental (SMO). Precipitating systems grew upscale and moved WNW toward...morning hours. This was due to precipitating systems surviving the westward trip (~7...and diurnal cycle of individual precipitating systems (including mesoscale convective...

Classification of Tropical Precipitating Systems Using Wind Profiler...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......algorithm to classify the tropical precipitating systems. A detailed investigation on the...Introduction Classification of tropical precipitating systems is highly essential because the...distinctly different for different precipitating systems. For instance, the latent heating...

Radar, passive microwave, and lightning characterists of precipitating...

Monthly Weather Review;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......and lightning characteristics of precipitating systems in tropical Africa, South America...century to study and understand precipitating systems in the Tropics, which account for...rainfall (Mohr et al. 1999). Tropical precipitating systems are also a major component of the...

Application of a Bayesian wind profile retrieval technique to radar data...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......three-dimensional convective-scale view of precipitating systems with a high temporal resolution (5 min) over mesoscale and even synoptic-scale domains. Kinematic parameters...environment above and around precipitating systems, which often prove to be key...radar (SMA), a coverage of ...

Sensitivities of a Flash Flood Event over Catalonia: A Numerical Analysis

Monthly Weather Review;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......generating and sustaining the quasi-stationary precipitating systems is assessed through numerical sensitivity analysis...primary source of heat and water vapor for heavy precipitating systems. The coastal mountain ranges may not only produce...prone to the development of convection and heavy ...

Phase lag between deep cumulus convection and low-level convergence in...

Monthly Weather Review;  April 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......and low-level convergence in tropical synoptic-scale systems, known since 1974. Several...heating and low-level convergence in synoptic-scale tropical waves. Using Reed and Recker...that this phase lag is found at the synoptic scale after smaller-scale disturbances (mainly...

Representing Convective Organization in Prediction Models by a Hybrid...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......propagation and dynamical structure of organized precipitating systems. Therefore, the predictor-corrector hybrid approach...mesoscale convective complexes as well as multiscale precipitating systems embedded in the tropical intraseasonal oscillation...the neighborhood of the Continental Divide ...

Numerical simulation of the 1993 midwestern flood: Land-atmosphere...

Journal of Climate;  May 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......1993 summer, and feedback between the surface and precipitating systems were investigated using the Purdue Regional Model...during the 1993 summer. During June, a series of synoptic-scale cyclone systems propagated across the Rocky Mountains...convection. The importance of land surface processes ...

A spectrum analysis of synoptic-scale disturbances in the ITCZ

Journal of Climate;  June 15, 2001 ;     700+ words ......characteristics of convective signals in synoptic-scale disturbances along the intertropical...properties of westward-- propagating synoptic-scale disturbances. The zonal variability...interannual variations. Eastward-propagating synoptic-scale disturbances in the ITCZ, in contrast...

The Origin and Dispersion Characteristics of the Observed Tropical...

Monthly Weather Review;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......behavior of the observed summertime synoptic-scale disturbances in the tropical western...east-west-orienled "storm tracks" of the synoptic-scale disturbances, there are two different...the heat flux associated with the synoptic-scale eddies is negative (i.e., v'T' <...

Synoptic-Scale Structure and the Character of Coastally Trapped Wind...

Monthly Weather Review;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......described in numerous other studies. The synoptic-scale environment and the forcing of a coastally...with similar frequencies. While the synoptic-scale characteristics associated with propagating...between the coastal dynamics and the synoptic-scale forcing. Synoptic forcing ...

Interannual variation of the summer synoptic-scale disturbance activity in...

Monthly Weather Review;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......computed the occurrence frequency of synoptic-scale disturbances over the western tropical...during warm (cold) summers. The tropical synoptic-scale disturbance activity is affected by...warm (cold) summers, and 2) tropical synoptic-scale disturbances are located primarily...