Multi-Scale Precipitation Variability Over the Tropics: New Insights from Observations and Modelling explores the latest developments in the observation and modelling of tropical precipitation. Researchers will benefit from this detailed analysis of recent advancements in the field. The text first examines recent satellite and RADAR observations and how those breakthroughs enhance our understanding. This is followed by a review of NASA A-train observations as well as extreme events. The editors also look at predicting precipitation variability with a state-of-the-art ensemble forecast system. The text wraps with a discussion of multiscale cloud and precipitation variability with the backdrop of a changing climate.
This text will provide researchers with new insights and a deeper understanding of the latest advances in the observation and modelling of tropical precipitation.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Copyright - p. iii 4. Dedication - p. iii 5. Contributors - p. xiii 6. Foreword - p. xiv 7. Preface - p. xvii 8. Chapter 1. Multi-scale manifestation of tropical precipitation as evidenced from recent satellite observations - p. 1 9. Chapter 2. New insights on tropical clouds and rains from RADAR observations - p. 35 10. Chapter 3. Exploring the tropics: Advancing cloud and precipitation studies with combined RADAR and satellite observations - p. 49 11. Chapter 4. Relationship between extreme rainfall events and cloud optical properties over tropics - p. 73 12. Chapter 5. Translating the new observational insights to improve the tropical cloud variability in climate model - p. 87 13. Chapter 6.1. Toward a breakthrough in convection parameterization using multiscale and multicloud modeling constrained by observations—Part I: Motivation and model development - p. 105 14. Chapter 6.2. Toward a breakthrough in convection parameterization using multiscale and multicloud modeling constrained by observations—Part II: Implementation in CAM and preliminary results - p. 141 15. Chapter 7. Simulating tropical multiscale cloud and precipitation variability with a global convection-permitting model - p. 165 16. Chapter 8. Predicting the multiscale cloud and precipitation variability with a state-of-the-art ensemble forecast system - p. 181 17. Chapter 9. Heavy precipitating mid-tropospheric monsoonal systems in a warming climate - p. 205 18. Index - p. 233
Multi-Scale Precipitation Variability Over the Tropics: New Insights from Observations and Modelling explores the latest developments in the observation and modelling of tropical precipitation. Researchers will benefit from this detailed analysis of recent advancements in the field. The text first examines recent satellite and RADAR observations and how those breakthroughs enhance our understanding. This is followed by a review of NASA A-train observations as well as extreme events. The editors also look at predicting precipitation variability with a state-of-the-art ensemble forecast system. The text wraps with a discussion of multiscale cloud and precipitation variability with the backdrop of a changing climate.
This text will provide researchers with new insights and a deeper understanding of the latest advances in the observation and modelling of tropical precipitation.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Copyright - p. iii 4. Dedication - p. iii 5. Contributors - p. xiii 6. Foreword - p. xiv 7. Preface - p. xvii 8. Chapter 1. Multi-scale manifestation of tropical precipitation as evidenced from recent satellite observations - p. 1 9. Chapter 2. New insights on tropical clouds and rains from RADAR observations - p. 35 10. Chapter 3. Exploring the tropics: Advancing cloud and precipitation studies with combined RADAR and satellite observations - p. 49 11. Chapter 4. Relationship between extreme rainfall events and cloud optical properties over tropics - p. 73 12. Chapter 5. Translating the new observational insights to improve the tropical cloud variability in climate model - p. 87 13. Chapter 6.1. Toward a breakthrough in convection parameterization using multiscale and multicloud modeling constrained by observations—Part I: Motivation and model development - p. 105 14. Chapter 6.2. Toward a breakthrough in convection parameterization using multiscale and multicloud modeling constrained by observations—Part II: Implementation in CAM and preliminary results - p. 141 15. Chapter 7. Simulating tropical multiscale cloud and precipitation variability with a global convection-permitting model - p. 165 16. Chapter 8. Predicting the multiscale cloud and precipitation variability with a state-of-the-art ensemble forecast system - p. 181 17. Chapter 9. Heavy precipitating mid-tropospheric monsoonal systems in a warming climate - p. 205 18. Index - p. 233
