Diurnal cycles of precipitation, clouds, and lightning in the tropics from 9 years of TRMM observations

Details Diurnal cycles of precipitation, clouds, and lightning in the tropics from 9 years of TRMM observations Diurnal cycles of precipitation, clouds, and lightning in the tropics from 9 years of TRMM observations

Feb 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008georl..3504819l&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, Issue 4, CiteID L04819

Physics

Optics

23

Atmospheric Composition And Structure: General Or Miscellaneous, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud Physics And Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Troposphere: Constituent Transport And Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud Optics

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The diurnal cycles of surface rainfall, population of precipitation systems, deep intense convection reaching near the tropopause, lightning flash counts, cold clouds, and vertical structure of precipitation are analyzed over the tropics, using 9 years of TRMM Precipitation Radar, Visible and Infrared Scanner, and Lightning Imaging Sensor measurements. The diurnal cycles over land include a late afternoon maximum of precipitation systems, with phase differences among cloud, precipitation, flash counts, and radar echo at different altitudes. Over ocean, the diurnal cycles are interpreted as having contributions from nocturnal precipitation systems and early afternoon showers. There are double peaks of radar reflectivity above 12 km near 0230 and 0530 local time over oceans. The oceanic clouds with infrared brightness temperature < 235 K have two peaks, one during the night and the other in early afternoon.

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