The Tropical Ocean‐Global Atmosphere observing system: A decade of progress

MJ McPhaden, AJ Busalacchi… - Journal of …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
A major accomplishment of the recently completed Tropical Ocean‐Global Atmosphere
(TOGA) Program was the development of an ocean observing system to support seasonal …

Climatological characterization of three-dimensional storm structure from operational radar and rain gauge data

M Steiner, RA Houze Jr… - Journal of Applied …, 1995 - journals.ametsoc.org
Three algorithms extract information on precipitation type, structure, and amount from
operational radar and rain gauge data. Tests on one month of data from one site show that …

Ground-based remote sensing of the atmospheric boundary layer: 25 years of progress

JM Wilczak, EE Gossard, WD Neff… - Boundary-Layer …, 1996 - Springer
The role of ground-based remote sensors in boundary-layer research is reviewed,
emphasizing the contributions of radars, sodars, and lidars. The review begins with a brief …

Developments in UHF lower tropospheric wind profiling at NOAA's Aeronomy Laboratory

DA Carter, KS Gage, WL Ecklund, WM Angevine… - Radio …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Developments in UHF profiling at 915 MHz are presented. Recent advances in UHF profiling
are traced to early developments beginning about 8 years ago in the Aeronomy Laboratory …

Tropical rainfall associated with convective and stratiform clouds: Intercomparison of disdrometer and profiler measurements

A Tokay, DA Short, CR Williams… - Journal of Applied …, 1999 - journals.ametsoc.org
The motivation for this research is to move in the direction of improved algorithms for the
remote sensing of rainfall, which are crucial for meso-and large-scale circulation studies and …

[HTML][HTML] Shallow meridional circulation in the tropical eastern Pacific

C Zhang, M McGauley, NA Bond - Journal of climate, 2004 - journals.ametsoc.org
Shallow Meridional Circulation in the Tropical Eastern Pacific in: Journal of Climate Volume 17
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High sensitivity of tropical precipitation to local sea surface temperature

P Good, R Chadwick, CE Holloway, J Kennedy… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Precipitation and atmospheric circulation are the coupled processes through which tropical
ocean surface temperatures drive global weather and climate,,,–. Local sea surface warming …

Cloud radar Doppler spectra in drizzling stratiform clouds: 1. Forward modeling and remote sensing applications

P Kollias, J Rémillard, E Luke… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Several aspects of spectral broadening and drizzle growth in shallow liquid clouds remain
not well understood. Detailed, cloud‐scale observations of microphysics and dynamics are …

Uncertainty analysis of the TRMM ground-validation radar-rainfall products: Application to the TEFLUN-B field campaign

E Habib, WF Krajewski - Journal of Applied Meteorology and …, 2002 - journals.ametsoc.org
Uncertainty Analysis of the TRMM Ground-Validation Radar-Rainfall Products: Application to
the TEFLUN-B Field Campaign in: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Volume 41 …

Organized convective systems in the tropical western Pacific as a process in general circulation models: A TOGA COARE case‐study

MW Moncrieff, E Klinker - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the large‐scale effects of organized convective systems in the tropical western
Pacific observed during the Tropical‐Ocean Global‐Atmosphere Coupled Ocean …