The variable nature of convection in the tropics and subtropics: A legacy of 16 years of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite

RA Houze Jr, KL Rasmussen, MD Zuluaga… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
For over 16 years, the Precipitation Radar of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
(TRMM) satellite detected the three‐dimensional structure of significantly precipitating …

Global precipitation map using satellite-borne microwave radiometers by the GSMaP project: Production and validation

T Kubota, S Shige, H Hashizume… - … on Geoscience and …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper documents the production and validation of retrieved rainfall data obtained from
satellite-borne microwave radiometers by the Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation …

Multiscale cloud system modeling

WK Tao, MW Moncrieff - Reviews of Geophysics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The central theme of this paper is to describe how cloud system resolving models (CRMs) of
grid spacing∼ 1 km have been applied to various important problems in atmospheric …

Improvements in detection of light precipitation with the Global Precipitation Measurement dual-frequency precipitation radar (GPM DPR)

A Hamada, YN Takayabu - Journal of atmospheric and …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
This paper demonstrates the impact of the enhancement in detectability by the dual-
frequency precipitation radar (DPR) on board the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) …

[HTML][HTML] Diurnal cycle of precipitation in the tropics simulated in a global cloud-resolving model

T Sato, H Miura, M Satoh, YN Takayabu… - Journal of …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation in the Tropics Simulated in a Global Cloud-Resolving Model in:
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Rainfall, convection, and latent heating distributions in rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones

JP Zagrodnik, H Jiang - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Tropical cyclone (TC) rainfall, convection, and latent heating distributions are compiled from
14 years of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation radar overpasses. The …

[HTML][HTML] Retrieval of latent heating from TRMM measurements

WK Tao, EA Smith, RF Adler… - Bulletin of the …, 2006 - journals.ametsoc.org
Rainfall is a fundamental process within the Earth's hydrological cycle because it represents
a principal forcing term in surface water budgets, while its energetics corollary, latent …

[HTML][HTML] Distributions of shallow to very deep precipitation–convection in rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones

C Tao, H Jiang - Journal of Climate, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Distributions of Shallow to Very Deep Precipitation–Convection in Rapidly Intensifying Tropical
Cyclones in: Journal of Climate Volume 28 Issue 22 (2015) Jump to Content Jump to Main …

Improving simulations of convective systems from TRMM LBA: Easterly and westerly regimes

S Lang, WK Tao, J Simpson, R Cifelli… - Journal of the …, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The 3D Goddard Cumulus Ensemble model is used to simulate two convective
events observed during the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Large-Scale Biosphere …

Precipitation reproducibility over tropical oceans and its relationship to the double ITCZ problem in CMIP3 and MIROC5 climate models

N Hirota, YN Takayabu, M Watanabe… - Journal of …, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
Precipitation reproducibility over the tropical oceans in climate models is examined. Models
participating in phase 3 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3) and the …