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In this study, we have diagnosed diabatic heating, meridional adiabatic mass and angular momentum transport, and downward transfer of westerly angular momentum by the pressure torque in isentropic coordinates using daily NCEP-NCAR...
First proposed by Twomey, the aerosol first indirect effect hypothesizes that increased aerosol concentration leads to a larger number of cloud condensation nuclei, and therefore smaller but more numerous cloud droplets, which results in...
Wildfires have a great impact throughout the atmosphere, particularly in the surface and boundary layers. The magnitude of heat flux and turbulence generated by the spread of these fires is relatively large and has scarcely been...
A local, regime-dependent cloud mask (CM) algorithm is developed for isolating cloud-free pixels from cloudy pixels for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) imager radiance assimilation using mesoscale forecast models...
The availability of high resolution temperature and water vapor data is critical for the study of mesoscale scale weather phenomena (e.g., convective initiations, and tropical cyclones). As hyperspectral infrared sounders, the...
Microwave Humidity Sounders (MHS) onboard NOAA-15, -16, -17, -18, -19 and EUMETSAT MetOp-A, -B provide radiance measurements at a single polarization state at any of the five observed frequencies. Microwave Humidity Sounder (MWHS)...
The following study examines the spatiotemporal response of the local scale and large scale environment to tropical cyclone (TC) passage. The research presented here is broken up into three chapters that can be separated into two parts....
Ice and snow particles have a great, yet poorly understood impact on the Earth's climate system. One of the difficulties of studying snow particles is their irregular shape. While spheres and even oblate spheroids backscatter radiation...
The second-order closure for the ensemble-mean dynamics is validated using the approach of direct numerical ensemble simulations of a linear barotropic model with stochastic basic flows in extratropics. For various configurations of the...
Accurate knowledge of cloud-top height is important for a range of meteorological applications. Uses include cloud classification and the assignment of height levels to cloud drift winds. Such data may also be useful for monitoring...
Anthropogenic aerosols are known to alter clouds and their optical properties by serving as cloud condensation nuclei. An increase in aerosol concentration causing smaller but more cloud droplets for a fixed liquid water content, thereby...
The two-way interaction between synoptic eddy and low-frequency flow (SELF), has been recognized to be important for the low-frequency variability of the atmosphere circulation. By considering a stochastic basic flow that captures the...
A simple one-dimensional seasonal atmosphere-ocean energy balance model is used to study the seasonal and latitudinal response of the model climate to a doubling of the CO2 concentration. A new climate feedback analysis method, ...
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