Characteristics of Strong Updrafts in Precipitation Systems over the Central Tropical Pacific Ocean and in the Amazon-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Characteristics of Strong Updrafts in Precipitation Systems over the Central Tropical Pacific Ocean and in the Amazon

Published:2005-05-01 Issue:5 Volume:44 Page:731-738
ISSN:1520-0450
Container-title:Journal of Applied Meteorology
language:en
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Author:

Anderson Nicholas F.¹,Grainger Cedric A.¹,Stith Jeffrey L.²

Affiliation:

1. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota

2. National Center for Atmospheric Research,* Boulder, Colorado

Abstract

Abstract Airborne in situ measurements of updrafts in tropical convective storms were analyzed to determine the similarities and differences between updrafts in a tropical continental and a tropical oceanic region. Two hundred fifteen updraft cores from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) component of the Large Scale Biosphere–Atmosphere (LBA) experiment (tropical continental wet season) and 377 updraft cores from the Kwajalein Experiment (KWAJEX) (tropical oceanic) were analyzed in a similar manner to that of previous studies of tropical updrafts. Average speed, maximum speed, width, and mass flux of the updraft cores from the TRMM-LBA and KWAJEX were generally similar to each other and also were similar to results from previous studies of tropical updrafts.

Publisher

American Meteorological Society

Subject

Atmospheric Science

Link

http://journals.ametsoc.org/jamc/article-pdf/44/5/731/3295099/jam2231_1.pdf

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