Studies Of Cloud Convection And Precipitation Processes Using Satellite Observations

Author : William B Rossow,George Tselioudis,Zhengzhao Johnny Luo
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811256929

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Studies Of Cloud, Convection And Precipitation Processes Using Satellite Observations by William B Rossow,George Tselioudis,Zhengzhao Johnny Luo Pdf

Clouds, convection and precipitation processes are central components of Earth's weather and climate. They are produced by atmospheric motions across a very wide range of space-time scales from local weather to long-term global climate variation. They feedback on these motions by perturbing the heating/cooling that drive the atmospheric circulation. These processes also perturb the oceanic circulation and land surface properties that affect the atmospheric circulation.Because of the coupling of the atmosphere-ocean-land system across all scales by cloud, convection and precipitation processes, studying their behaviors requires measurements in space-time variations across all these scales simultaneously. Satellite constellations with global coverage and high time resolution offer the ideal platforms for such observations. This book summarizes some of the latest research using combinations of various satellite observations to study these processes and to evaluate their representations in global weather and climate models.Included with this publication are downloadable electronic slides and accompanying notes of each lecture for students, teachers, and public speakers around the world to be better able to understand cloud, convection and precipitation processes.

Author : Sylvia Sullivan,Corinna Hoose
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119700319

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Clouds and Their Climatic Impact by Sylvia Sullivan,Corinna Hoose Pdf

Clouds and Their Climatic Impacts Clouds are an influential and complex element of Earth’s climate system. They evolve rapidly in time and exist over small spatial scales, but also affect global radiative balance and large-scale circulations. With more powerful models and extensive observations now at our disposal, the climate impact of clouds is receiving ever more research attention. Clouds and Their Climatic Impacts: Radiation, Circulation, and Precipitation presents an overview of our current understanding on various types of clouds and cloud systems and their multifaceted role in the radiative budget, circulation patterns, and rainfall. Volume highlights include: Interactions of aerosol with both liquid and ice clouds Surface and atmospheric cloud radiative feedbacks and effects Arctic, extratropical, and tropical clouds Cloud-circulation coupling at global, meso, and micro scales Precipitation efficiency, phase, and measurements The role of machine learning in understanding clouds and climate The American Geophysical Union promotes discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity. Its publications disseminate scientific knowledge and provide resources for researchers, students, and professionals.

Author : Robert Pincus,David Winker,Sandrine Bony,Bjorn Stevens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319772738

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Shallow Clouds, Water Vapor, Circulation, and Climate Sensitivity by Robert Pincus,David Winker,Sandrine Bony,Bjorn Stevens Pdf

This volume presents a series of overview articles arising from a workshop exploring the links among shallow clouds, water vapor, circulation, and climate sensitivity. It provides a state-of-the art synthesis of understanding about the coupling of clouds and water vapor to the large-scale circulation. The emphasis is on two phenomena, namely the self-aggregation of deep convection and interactions between low clouds and the large-scale environment, with direct links to the sensitivity of climate to radiative perturbations. Each subject is approached using simulations, observations, and synthesizing theory; particular attention is paid to opportunities offered by new remote-sensing technologies, some still prospective. The collection provides a thorough grounding in topics representing one of the World Climate Research Program’s Grand Challenges. Previously published in Surveys in Geophysics, Volume 38, Issue 6, 2017 The aritcles “Observing Convective Aggregation”, “An Observational View of Relationships Between Moisture Aggregation, Cloud, and Radiative Heating Profiles”, “Implications of Warm Rain in Shallow Cumulus and Congestus Clouds for Large-Scale Circulations”, “A Survey of Precipitation-Induced Atmospheric Cold Pools over Oceans and Their Interactions with the Larger-Scale Environment”, “Low-Cloud Feedbacks from Cloud-Controlling Factors: A Review”, “Mechanisms and Model Diversity of Trade-Wind Shallow Cumulus Cloud Feedbacks: A Review”, “Structure and Dynamical Influence of Water Vapor in the Lower Tropical Troposphere”, “Emerging Technologies and Synergies for Airborne and Space-Based Measurements of Water Vapor Profiles”, “Observational Constraints on Cloud Feedbacks: The Role of Active Satellite Sensors”, and “EUREC4A: A Field Campaign to Elucidate the Couplings Between Clouds, Convection and Circulation” are available as open access articles under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Author : Shouting Gao,Xiaofan Li
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402082764

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Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Convective Processes by Shouting Gao,Xiaofan Li Pdf

Clouds and cloud systems and their interactions with larger scales of motion, radiation, and the Earth’s surface are extremely important parts of weather and climate systems. Their treatment in weather forecast and climate models is a significant source of errors and uncertainty. As computer power increases, it is beginning to be possible to explicitly resolve cloud and precipitation processes in these models, presenting opportunities for improving precipitation forecasts and larger-scale phenomena such as tropical cyclones which depend critically on cloud and precipitation physics. This book by Professor Shouting Gao of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Beijing and Xiaofan Li of NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Services (NESDIS) presents an update and review of results of high-resolution, mostly two-dimensional models of clouds and precipitation and their interactions with larger scales of motion and the Earth’s surface. It provides a thorough description of cloud and precipitation physics, including basic governing equations and related physics, such as phase changes of water, radiation and mixing. Model results are compared with observations from the 1992-93 Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE) experiment. The importance of the ocean to tropical convective systems is clearly shown here in the numerical results of simulations with their air-sea coupled modeling system. While the focus is on tropical convection, the methodology and applicability can be extended to cloud and precipitation processes elsewhere. The results described in this well-written book form a solid foundation for future high-resolution model weather forecasts and climate simulations that resolve clouds explicitly in three dimensions—a future that has great promise for the understanding and prediction of weather and climate for the great benefit of society.

Author : A. Pier Siebesma,Sandrine Bony,Christian Jakob,Bjorn Stevens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781107061071

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Clouds and Climate by A. Pier Siebesma,Sandrine Bony,Christian Jakob,Bjorn Stevens Pdf

Comprehensive overview of research on clouds and their role in our present and future climate, for advanced students and researchers.

Author : Juliet Ann Pilewskie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1434253540

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Characterizing Deep Convective Cloud Properties and Their Energetic Impacts in Satellite Observations by Juliet Ann Pilewskie Pdf

Because atmospheric deep convection plays an important role in influencing Earth's global energy budget, it is increasingly important to consider how deep convective cloud and energetic properties might change due to a changing climate. Deep convective vertical intensity may increase in regions that are becoming increasingly moist in response to warming sea surface temperatures, which could alter precipitation, anvil cloud development, and their radiative response. The focus of this work, therefore, is to document the relationships between these properties applied to our present-day understanding of how convection fundamentally contributes to the Earth's energy budget: by 1) vertically transporting energy and mass to the upper troposphere, 2) balancing clear-sky radiative cooling through latent heating, and 3) modulating the top-of-atmospheric radiative energy budget. The processes influencing how convective updraft strength relates to cloud and precipitation development occur on the convective cloud scale and smaller, so it is necessary to document such characteristics on these scales. We begin by providing a near-global perspective of convection using a database of "convective objects" generated from ten years of A-Train measurements. By leveraging CloudSat's ability to distinguish convective cores, we define a proxy for a convective core vertical intensity based on the height of the attenuating radar signal. Over the tropics, these observations support previous insights from a precipitation perspective on where storms are the most intense. Motivated by wanting to understand deep convective contributions to lateral energy transport, we next document how the intensity and frequency of deep convective cores that reach the tropopause (hot towers) relate to anvil cloud and precipitation productivity within the tropics. It is found that the largest amount of mass within the upper troposphere supplied by hot towers is not geographically where the most precipitation and largest anvil extents occur. Motivated by convection's influence on the top-of-atmospheric radiative energy budget, we analyze how convective core depth and anvil structure influence their cloud radiative effects. We find that the most vertically intense systems more often contribute a warming at the top of the atmosphere compared to weaker systems, which holds across different regions in the tropics. Finally, we explore how these relationships are sensitive to large-scale environmental conditions to provide benchmark relationships for modeling studies assessing high cloud feedbacks in a changing climate.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Climatology
ISBN : UCSD:31822002499457

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Clouds in Climate by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gerald R. North,John A. Pyle,Fuqing Zhang
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 2874 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780123822260

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Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences by Gerald R. North,John A. Pyle,Fuqing Zhang Pdf

Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, Second Edition, Six Volume Set is an authoritative resource covering all aspects of atmospheric sciences, including both theory and applications. With more than 320 articles and 1,600 figures and photographs, this revised version of the award-winning first edition offers comprehensive coverage of this important field. The six volumes in this set contain broad-ranging articles on topics such as atmospheric chemistry, biogeochemical cycles, boundary layers, clouds, general circulation, global change, mesoscale meteorology, ozone, radar, satellite remote sensing, and weather prediction. The Encyclopedia is an ideal resource for academia, government, and industry in the fields of atmospheric, ocean, and environmental sciences. It is written at a level that allows undergraduate students to understand the material, while providing active researchers with the latest information in the field. Covers all aspects of atmospheric sciences—including both theory and applications Presents more than 320 articles and more than 1,600 figures and photographs Broad-ranging articles include topics such as atmospheric chemistry, biogeochemical cycles, boundary layers, clouds, general circulation, global change, mesoscale meteorology, ozone, radar, satellite remote sensing, and weather prediction An ideal resource for academia, government, and industry in the fields of atmospheric, ocean, and environmental sciences

Author : Vincenzo Levizzani,Christopher Kidd,Dalia B. Kirschbaum,Christian D. Kummerow,Kenji Nakamura,F. Joseph Turk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030245689

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Satellite Precipitation Measurement by Vincenzo Levizzani,Christopher Kidd,Dalia B. Kirschbaum,Christian D. Kummerow,Kenji Nakamura,F. Joseph Turk Pdf

This book offers a complete overview of the measurement of precipitation from space, which has made considerable advancements during the last two decades. This is mainly due to the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, CloudSat and a carefully maintained constellation of satellites hosting passive microwave sensors. The book revisits a previous book, Measuring Precipitation from Space, edited by V. Levizzani, P. Bauer and F. J. Turk, published with Springer in 2007. The current content has been completely renewed to incorporate the advancements of science and technology in the field since then. This book provides unique contributions from field experts and from the International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG). The book will be of interest to meteorologists, hydrologists, climatologists, water management authorities, students at various levels and many other parties interested in making use of satellite precipitation data sets. Chapter “TAMSAT” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Feifei Shen,Yunheng Wang,Yuefei Zeng,Dongmei Xu
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832537725

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Advances in Numerical Model, Data Assimilation, and Observations for Hazardous Weather Prediction by Feifei Shen,Yunheng Wang,Yuefei Zeng,Dongmei Xu Pdf

Accurate and timely forecasting of hazardous weather events induced by meso-scale convection systems (MCSs) is the key to safeguarding lives and property. Yet the MCS forecasting is challenging due to imperfect initial numerical conditions that lack meso-scale convective information and multi-scale dynamic and thermodynamic consistency. Remote sensing observations are the primary source of estimating weather conditions, such as moisture, wind velocity, and precipitation. It is of fundamental pivotality to develop data assimilation technologies to enhance applications of multi-source observations. Performance assessments of new types of observations facilitate the network designment for regional- and storm-scale numerical models. This Research Topic seeks submissions underscoring the improvement of the accuracy of MCS predictions, warnings, and decision support for high-impact weather events as well as observation network designs.

Author : Hirohiko Masunaga
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811922435

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Satellite Measurements of Clouds and Precipitation by Hirohiko Masunaga Pdf

This book provides a thorough introductory description of the physical principles underlying the satellite remote sensing of clouds and precipitation. A diverse collection of satellite sensors is covered, including imagers, radars, and sounders over a broad spectral range from visible to microwave radiation. The progress in satellite instrument technology during the past two decades as represented by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), CloudSat, and Global Measurement Mission (GPM) satellites has drastically improved our capability of measuring clouds and precipitation across the globe. At the same time, such rapid progress makes it increasingly challenging for scientists without specialized skills in remote sensing to fully grasp how satellite measurements are being made. This book is designed to mitigate that challenge. The targeted readers are graduate students and professional scientists seeking an extended summary of the theoretical background behind observations from space, ranging from fundamental physics (the statistical mechanics and radiative processes, for instance) to more practical levels of theory such as retrieval algorithm design.

Author : Guihua Wang,Darko Koracin,Dujuan Kang
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832512845

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Advances in observations and modeling of physical processes in the marine environment by Guihua Wang,Darko Koracin,Dujuan Kang Pdf

Author : David A. Randall,J. Srinivasan,Ravi S. Nanjundiah,Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811333965

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Current Trends in the Representation of Physical Processes in Weather and Climate Models by David A. Randall,J. Srinivasan,Ravi S. Nanjundiah,Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay Pdf

This book focuses on the development of physical parameterization over the last 2 to 3 decades and provides a roadmap for its future development. It covers important physical processes: convection, clouds, radiation, land-surface, and the orographic effect. The improvement of numerical models for predicting weather and climate at a variety of places and times has progressed globally. However, there are still several challenging areas, which need to be addressed with a better understanding of physical processes based on observations, and to subsequently be taken into account by means of improved parameterization. And this is all the more important since models are increasingly being used at higher horizontal and vertical resolutions. Encouraging debate on the cloud-resolving approach or the hybrid approach with parameterized convection and grid-scale cloud microphysics and its impact on models’ intrinsic predictability, the book offers a motivating reference guide for all researchers whose work involves physical parameterization problems and numerical models.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UIUC:30112067190055

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Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Weather Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Meteorological research
ISBN : MSU:31293018053458

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Current Federal Meteorological Research and Development Activities by United States. Weather Bureau Pdf