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El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a widely known phenomenon that affects many areas including the southeast United States. Over the southeast U.S. the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) ENSO index was modified to establish better...
Ice clouds play an important role in earth radiation balance by reflecting solar and absorbing thermal radiation, the so-called albedo versus greenhouse eects, which cause signicant dierential atmospheric heating and cooling in...
The spatial and temporal variability of the surface turbulent heat fluxes over the North Atlantic is examined using the new objectively produced FSU3 monthly mean 1°x1° gridded wind and surface flux product for 1978-2003. The FSU3...
The steps involved in establishing and implementing a quality control procedure for AIRS radiance data prior to its use in a mesoscale model are discussed. The Limited Cloud-Clearing Data Removal (LCCDR) Algorithm utilizes AIRS channel...
The second-order closure for the ensemble-mean dynamics is validated using the approach of direct numerical ensemble simulations of a linear barotropic model with stochastic basic flows in extratropics. For various configurations of the...
A comprehensive eigen-mode analysis of an intermediate coupled model linearized with respect to arrays of basic states is performed to study the regimes of leading ocean-atmosphere coupled modes of relevance to the El Niño Southern...
As a continuation to the shortwave phase of the third Intercomparison of Radiation Codes in Climate Models (ICRCCM III) by Barker et al. (2003), this study establishes longwave benchmarks for inhomogeneous cloud fields and compares the...
This paper examines the climatology of the major jet steams over West Africa. Three prominent jets occur at varying heights in the atmosphere, and while each jet is zonal in its flow, their sizes, magnitudes, and directions vary greatly....
Lightning inhibits normal operating conditions at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and other locations, leading to inconvenience and detrimental economic impacts. Lightning cessation guidance must safely protect lives and infrastructure....
During the past two decades, the accuracy of rainfall retrieval based on passive microwave observations has been greatly improved, particularly over ocean. However, rainfall retrieval over land remains to be problematic. The objective of...
The El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), and the Polar Vortex Oscillation (PVO) produce conditions favorable for monthly extreme temperatures and precipitation....
Climate feedbacks represent mechanisms that alter the sensitivity of the earth climate system. It has been suggested that the current spread in climate model sensitivity to a CO2 forcing is a result of different treatments of climate...
TC structures consisting of eye, eyewall and rainband can be clearly resolved by Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) window channels. High brightness temperatures are found in cloud-free hurricane eye and cloud streaks, and low brightness...
This study focused on the effective use of a numerical climate model for agriculture in Florida, especially in the citrus farming region of the Florida peninsula, because of the impact of agriculture to Florida's economy. For the...
The following study examines the spatiotemporal response of the local scale and large scale environment to tropical cyclone (TC) passage. The research presented here is broken up into three chapters that can be separated into two parts....
Tropical Cyclone Inner-Core Dynamics: A Latent Heat Retrieval and Its Effects on Intensity and Structure Change; and the Impacts of Effective Diffusion on the Axisymmetrization Process
Despite the fact that latent heating in cloud systems drives many atmospheric circulations, including tropical cyclones, little is known of its magnitude and structure due in large part to inadequate observations. In this work, a...
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