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1 Tropical Cloud Population
2 Before Satellites
3 Visual Observation View from and aircraft flying over the South China Sea
4 Radiosonde Data Hot tower hypothesis Riehl & Malkus 1958
5 Satellite Observations
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8 Post satellite view of tropical cloud population, ca 1970 The cirrus shield was introduced Explained satellite pictures and retained the hot tower notion and the fact that smaller clouds exist. But missing are downdrafts, mesoscale stratiform rain and thick anvils. Also assumes simple scale separation.
9 Radars
10 GATE 1974
11 GATE SHIP ARRAY
12 More Tropical Field Projects TEPPS 1997 EPIC 2001 BoB 1979 JASMINE 1999 (Dashed: No sounding network)
13 Figure CONVSF MCS precipitation subdivided into convective and stratiform components Houze 1997 Old convection Vigorous convection 100 km Houze 1997
14 Convective Vigorous convection Note Max w > (V T ) snow Height Distance Houze 1997
15 Stratiform Old convective material Note (V T ) snow ~1-2 m/s Height Distance Houze 1997
16 Idealized life cycle of tropical MCS Houze 1982
17 Post-GATE view of the tropical cloud population Houze et al. (1980)
18 Precipitation Radar in Space
19 The TRMM Satellite Radar TRM M Low altitude, low inclination orbit
20 TRMM Satellite Instrumentation! = 2 mm Important! PR measures 3D structure of radar echoes Kummerow et al, 1998
21 Global precipitation seen from space Combined satellite rainfall July 2000 TRMM plus passive microwave sensors + other
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23 Latent Heating Max rain in tropics varies zonally Combined satellite rainfall July 2000
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25 2 Years of TRMM PR data Large Cbs MCSs Small isolated Cbs Schumacher & Houze 2003
26 Trade Wind Regime
27 Indo/Pacific Warm Pool
28 Traditional conceptual view of mean meridional distribution of tropical convection
29 Trimodal distribution Johnson et al Based on TOGA COARE data
30 Johnson et al TOGA COARE
31 Convective Structure as a Function of Large-scale Context SST Ocean vs Land Land Surface Type Coastal Effects Mountains Synoptic Situation
32 SST
33 TRMM PR Deep Convective SST Climatology (July) July SST TRMM PR Shallow, Isolated Convective
34 Land vs Ocean
35 West African Squall Line
36 Global frequency and distribution of lightning as observed from space Christian et al.2002.
37 TRMM view of Africa vis a vis the Atlantic Rain Stratiform Rain Fraction MCSs with large 85 GHz ice scattering Lightning
38 South Asian Monsoon Land Surface Mountains Synoptic Context
39 Terrain gradients Land-ocean contrast Land cover differences Thar Desert Ganges Delta Snow/Ice Tundra Wetland Forest Irrigated crop Crop Savanna Shrub/Grass Dryland/crop Grass Shrub Barren
40 Mean Large-scale Flow Pattern at 1000 mb and 200 mb
41 Analysis Subregions N Western Subregion Mountain Foothills Lowland Central Subregion Eastern Subregion Arabian Sea INDIA Bay of Bengal E
42 Analysis of three-dimensional echo regions Used TRMM algorithm for separating echoes into stratiform & convective regions! STRATIFORM identified by 2 criteria: Existence of bright band Lack of intense echo cores! Non-stratiform is either CONVECTIVE or OTHER OTHER
43 To study the vertical structure of convective regions we first define 3D echo cores The TRMM Precipitation Radar data are provided in bins ~5 km in the horizontal and ~0.25 km in the vertical Echo cores are formed by contiguous bins (in 3D space) of reflectivity values which exceed the threshold of 40 dbz. echo core 3D radar echo bounded by 40 dbz contour land
44 Examples Deep Convective Core Wide Convective Core Stratiform Convective Broad Stratiform Region
45 Western Central Eastern Deep Intense Cores 40 dbz echo > 10 km in height Wide Intense Cores 40 dbz echo > 1000 km 2 area Broad Stratiform Echo stratiform echo > 50,000 km 2
46 Carlson et al dry,hot moist
47 Sawyer 1947
48 Backward trajectories (HYSPLIT/NCEP) 2.5 km 1.0 km Medina et al. 2010
49 WRF Simulation Mixing ratio CAPE Medina et al. 2010
50 WRF Simulation Isochrones of integrated hydrometeor content Hydrometeor mixing ratio just after convection formed Medina et al. 2010
51 Intraseasonal Variation of the Monsoon 39 events Break Day 0: 8 mm/d 5N-5S 80-90E Active Webster & Tomas 1997
52 Broad stratiform case 11 Aug UTC
53 Broad stratiform case Upstream of mountains 0455 UTC
54 Reflectivity data for 2 monsoon seasons " Convection is stronger & deeper in west " Stratiform more pronounced in east
55 Propagating MCSs
56 Cross section of MCS with leading line of convection and trailing stratiform precipitation Houze et al. 1989
57 Squall Line With Trailing Stratiform Precipitation TRMM PR data over West Africa This one propagates E to W assisted by midlevel African easterly jet
58 A squall-line in India rare rare! Himalayas 2017 UTC 5 June 2003
59 A squall-line in India rare rare! Himalayas 500 mb jet over and parallel to the Himalayas 10 meter level 500 mb level 5 June 2003
60 Cloud Radar in Space
61 Combining 3 Types of Satellite
62 MCSs Over the Whole Tropics Yuan and Houze 2010
63 MCSs Over the Whole Tropics Yuan and Houze 2010
64 MCSs Over the Whole Tropics Yuan and Houze 2010 Frequency of MCS anvil cloud
65 MCSs Over the Whole Tropics Yuan and Houze 2010 MCS Anvil cloud properties derived from CloudSat Thickness (km) West Africa Indian Ocean Normalized Distance
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