Moisture mode theory's contribution to advances in our understanding of the Madden-Julian oscillation and other tropical disturbances

AF Adames, ED Maloney - Current Climate Change Reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Our understanding of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and
other tropical motion systems has significantly improved in recent years. This article reviews …

Theories for past and future monsoon rainfall changes

SA Hill - Current Climate Change Reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Long-standing biases in simulations of past and present climate
states and climate model disagreement even in sign of future monsoon rainfall changes …

[HTML][HTML] Scale analysis of moist thermodynamics in a simple model and the relationship between moisture modes and gravity waves

ÁF Adames, D Kim, SK Clark, Y Ming… - Journal of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Scale Analysis of Moist Thermodynamics in a Simple Model and the Relationship between
Moisture Modes and Gravity Waves in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 76 Issue 12 …

Exploratory precipitation metrics: Spatiotemporal characteristics, process-oriented, and phenomena-based

LR Leung, WR Boos, JL Catto, C A. DeMott… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Precipitation sustains life and supports human activities, making its prediction one of the
most societally relevant challenges in weather and climate modeling. Limitations in …

[HTML][HTML] Vertical velocity profiles in convectively coupled equatorial waves and MJO: New diagnoses of vertical velocity profiles in the wavenumber–frequency domain

K Inoue, ÁF Adames… - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Vertical Velocity Profiles in Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves and MJO: New Diagnoses
of Vertical Velocity Profiles in the Wavenumber–Frequency Domain in: Journal of the …

Barotropic growth of monsoon depressions

M Diaz, WR Boos - … Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Although monsoon depressions are a principal synoptic‐scale element of the South Asian
monsoon, producing extreme rainfall over India and surrounding regions, there exists no …

Monsoon depression amplification by moist barotropic instability in a vertically sheared environment

M Diaz, WR Boos - … Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This study makes the case that monsoon depressions over South Asia can form from a
variant of moist barotropic instability. Using an idealized numerical framework in which the …

[HTML][HTML] A wave-relative framework analysis of AEW–MCS interactions leading to tropical cyclogenesis

KMN Ocasio, JL Evans, GS Young - Monthly Weather Review, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
A Wave-Relative Framework Analysis of AEW–MCS Interactions Leading to Tropical
Cyclogenesis in: Monthly Weather Review Volume 148 Issue 11 (2020) Jump to Content …

Deep convective adjustment of temperature and moisture

F Ahmed, ÁF Adames… - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Simple process models and complex climate models are remarkably sensitive to the time
scale of convective adjustment τ, but this parameter remains poorly constrained and …

Large‐scale extreme rainfall‐producing synoptic systems of the Indian summer monsoon

AC Nikumbh, A Chakraborty, GS Bhat… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years India has been increasingly experiencing widespread floods induced by
large‐scale extreme rainfall events (LEREs). LEREs are mainly associated with monsoon …