Tower mast of precipitation over the central Tibetan Plateau summer

Details Tower mast of precipitation over the central Tibetan Plateau summer Tower mast of precipitation over the central Tibetan Plateau summer

Mar 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006georl..3305802f&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 5, CiteID L05802

Physics

2

Atmospheric Processes: Convective Processes, Atmospheric Processes: Land/Atmosphere Interactions (1218, 1631, 1843), Atmospheric Processes: Precipitation (1854), Atmospheric Processes: Remote Sensing

Scientific paper

Over the Tibetan Plateau, solar heating often produces strong convective instability in the atmosphere. Using 3 years (1998-2000) of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation radar data, our investigations revealed a tower mast shape of precipitation over the Plateau in both height-longitude and height-latitude cross-sections. High rain rate center over the Plateau is located above 6km as a tower penetrating into the mid-troposphere against the nearby background, implying a unique latent heating source injecting directly to the middle atmosphere. Results indicate that there are more isolated rain cells over the Plateau than its nearby regions, and the strongest diurnal cycle of rainfall existing over the Plateau with a peak around 1600 and a valley around 0500 local time, indicating the dominance of convective clouds caused by solar heating. It is also found that the TRMM algorithm might have misclassified weak convections as stratiform rains.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Tower mast of precipitation over the central Tibetan Plateau summer does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Tower mast of precipitation over the central Tibetan Plateau summer, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Tower mast of precipitation over the central Tibetan Plateau summer will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1136882