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Tropical pacific moisture variability (Document No: 19910023376)
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | McGuirk, James P. |
| Copyright Year | 1991 |
| Description | The research objectives were to describe synoptic scale variability of moisture over the tropical Pacific Ocean and the systems leading to this variability, to implement satellite analysis procedures to accomplish that objective, to incorporate additional satellite information into operational analysis/forecast systems at the National Meteorological Center (NMC), and to synthesize knowledge gained from satellite observations through diagnosis and numerical models. In the past year, three significant satellite data analysis tasks were accomplished: comparisons for upwelling radiance fields for 1983 and 1984 were completed for the purpose of testing the sensitivity of water vapor/greenhouse feedback to local sea surface temperature variations; the interaction between tropical plumes, wave features over Central America, traveling waves in the upper tropospheric tropics, and the tropical interseasonal oscillation was examined; and planning and early efforts on the construction of a model and the infrared based climatology of daily precipitable water was completed. Research on tropical plume mechanisms included is briefly discussed. |
| File Size | 147738 |
| Page Count | 4 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19910023376 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t9770d165 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1991-09-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Climatology Variability Moisture Troposphere Pacific Ocean Variations Oscillations Satellite Observation Traveling Waves Central America Sea Surface Temperature Ocean Surface Plumes Tropical Regions Upwelling Water Atmospheric Temperature Radiance Feedback Infrared Radiation Meteorology Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
