Multi-Scale Precipitation Variability Over the Tropics: New Insights from Observations and Modelling

ISBN-13: 9780443140303 / Angielski

Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay; Boualem Khouider; Shoichi Shige

Spis treści

1. Introduction
2. Multi-scale manifestation of tropical clouds as evidenced from recent satellite observations
3. New insights on tropical clouds and rains from RADAR observations
4. How does the latest RADAR and Satellite observations provide breakthrough in understanding tropical cloud and precipitation?
5. A-train observations to unravel the multiscale nature of tropical clouds
6. Multiscale tropical clouds and extreme events over tropics
7. Translating the new observational insights to improve the tropical cloud variability in climate model
8. Suites of Doppler lidar observations of vertical velocity to infer boundary layer processes on shallow cumulus at the ARM Southern Great Plains Site
9. Breakthrough in tropical Multiscale cloud modeling constrained by observations
10. Simulating tropical multiscale cloud and precipitation variability with a global convection permitting model
11. Predicting the multiscale cloud and precipitation variability with a state-of-the-art ensemble forecast system
12. Multiscale cloud and precipitation variability in the backdrop of changing climate