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Tropical convection's roles in tropical tropopause cirrus
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Starr, David OC Verlinde Sr., Johannes Lee, Sukyoung Boehm, Matthew T. |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Description | The results presented here show that tropical convection plays a role in each of the three primary processes involved in the in situ formation of tropopause cirrus. First, tropical convection transports moisture from the surface into the upper troposphere. Second, tropical convection excites Rossby waves that transport zonal momentum toward the ITCZ, thereby generating rising motion near the equator. This rising motion helps transport moisture from where it is detrained from convection to the cold-point tropopause. Finally, tropical convection excites vertically propagating tropical waves (e.g. Kelvin waves) that provide one source of large-scale cooling near the cold-point tropopause, leading to tropopause cirrus formation. |
| File Size | 669012 |
| Page Count | 7 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20020060502 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t2w42q62w |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2002-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Planetary Waves Equators Tropical Regions Cloud Physics Cirrus Clouds Tropopause Kelvin Waves Convection Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
