TRMM observations of intraseasonal variability in convective regimes over...

Journal of Climate;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......sensor (LIS), and passive microwave imager (TMI...investigate the vertical structure, lightning...of convective vertical structure "regimes" over...Imager (SSM/I) passive microwave (e.g., Mohr...lightning, and passive microwave observations...precipitation ...

The Tropical Convective Spectrum. Part I: Archetypal Vertical Structures

Journal of Climate;  July 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ......that retains vertical structure information...and 85-GHz passive microwave brightness...importance to passive microwave rain retrieval...available in full vertical structure information...integrate over, vertical structure information, such as ...

Regional and Diurnal Variability of the Vertical Structure of...

Journal of Climate;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......are used to describe the vertical structure of precipitation systems...1996), multifrequency passive microwave radiances (e.g., Kummerow...reflectivity data, especially its vertical structure, can be used to improve...differences exist between passive microwave and ...

Notes and correspondence: Comments on "use of ducting theory in an...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  September 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......propagation within the duct, and the vertical structure revealed from the eigenvalue method...depends on interpretations of the vertical structure to eliminate some predicted modes...consideration, no observations of the vertical structure were available from their experiment...

California Inventor Develops Vertical Structure Compound Semiconductor...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 31, 2008 ;     294 words ......Calif., has developed a vertical structure semiconductor device fabricating...method of fabricating a vertical structure opto-electronic device includes...fabricating a plurality of vertical structure opto-electronic devices...

A two-dimensional gravest empirical mode determined from hydrographic...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......relationship to each other and to the entire vertical structure of temperature T(p), salinity S(p...mode" (GEM) representation of the vertical structure fitted to 212 hydrographic stations...situations, proxy representations of the vertical structure are attractive because they ...

The vertical structure of linear coastal-trapped disturbances

Monthly Weather Review;  February 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...The Vertical Structure of Linear Coastal-Trapped Disturbances* ABSTRACT The vertical structure of coastal-trapped disturbances in...stratified lower atmosphere is examined. The vertical structure and phase speeds of the trapped modes...

A Statistical Model of Cloud Vertical Structure Based on Reconciling Cloud...

Journal of Climate;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......measurements, with a particular cloud vertical structure. Application of this model to the...is that the correlations of cloud vertical structure with meteorology are qualitatively...which depend on the cloud type and vertical structure (e.g., Chen et al. 2000a,b). So the...

Radar observations of updrafts, downdrafts, and turbulence in fair-weather...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......GHz radar are used to define the vertical structure of marine fair-weather cumuli. Doppler...are fundamental in regulating the vertical structure of water vapor and entropy in the...1977). However, definition of the vertical structure is critical since entrainment and...

Vertical Structure of Midlatitude Analysis and Forecast Errors

Monthly Weather Review;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......forecast errors share the same dominant vertical structure as the analyses. This structure peaks...and lower troposphere. The dominant vertical structure for analysis errors exhibits upshear...tropopause displacements. The dominant vertical structure for temperature analysis errors ...

Experimental study of the vertical structure of the lower troposphere over...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......the local characteristics of the vertical structure of the atmospheric boundary layer...revealed interesting features of the vertical structure of the atmosphere over the island...existence of a rich variety in the vertical structure associated with temperature inversions...

Classification of Tropical Precipitating Systems Using Wind Profiler...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......profiler measurements to study the vertical structure and statistical features of different...Characterization of the horizontal and vertical structure of tropical precipitation is vital...of the precipitating system. The vertical structure of precipitation, which may be in...

The Tropical Dynamical Response to Latent Heating Estimates Derived from...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  June 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ......variations in the vertical heating profile...latent heating vertical structure. When the heating...latent heating vertical structure. 1. Introduction...investigated how the vertical structure of tropical...variations in the vertical structure of tropical...et al. ...

Vertical structure of an OGCM simulation of the equatorial Pacific Ocean...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The vertical structure of the variability in the...processes associated with their vertical structure remains of great interest...have the information on the vertical structure. These models with sufficient...

The vertical structure of TOGA COARE convection. Part 1: Radar echo...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......stratiform Cartesian grid columns. The vertical structure of convective echo is examined through...traditionally been used to describe the vertical structure characteristics of convection, and...viewed as a function of "internal" vertical structure (i.e., 30-dBZ contour height), ...