Warm rain processes over tropical oceans and climate implications

Details Warm rain processes over tropical oceans and climate implications Warm rain processes over tropical oceans and climate implications

Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30xclm7l&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 24, pp. CLM 7-1, CiteID 2290, DOI 10.1029/2003GL018567

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Global Change: Water Cycles (1836), Hydrology: Precipitation (3354), Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Remote Sensing, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Tropical Meteorology, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Convective Processes

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From analysis of TRMM data, we find that warm rain accounts for 31% of the total rain amount and 72% of the total rain area in the tropics, and plays an important role in regulating the moisture content of the tropical atmosphere. There is a substantial increase in precipitation efficiency of light warm rain as the sea surface temperature increases, but precipitation efficiency of heavy rain associated with deep convection is independent of sea surface temperature. This implies that in a warmer climate, there may be more warm rain, at the expense of less cloud water available for middle and high level clouds.

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