Evolution of the upper-level thermal structure in tropical cyclones

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• Journal Title:
  Geophysical Research Letters
• Personal Author:
  Rivoire, Louis ; Birner, Thomas ; Knaff, John A.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; STAR (Center for Satellite Applications and Research)
• Description:
  Tropical cyclones (TCs) are associated with tropopause-level cooling above tropospheric warming. We collect temperature retrievals from 2007 to 2014 near worldwide hurricane-strength TCs using three remote sensing platforms: the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC), the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A), and geostationary infrared (IR) imagery. These retrievals are composited about the lifetime maximum intensity (LMI) to examine the evolution of the fine-scale temperature structure within TCs.
• Keywords:
  Cooling Evolution Lower Stratosphere Temperature Tropical Cyclones Upper Troposphere Vertical Structure
• Source:
  Geophys. Res. Lett., 43(19), 10,530–10,537
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1002/2016gl070622
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Rights Information:
  Other
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  Submitted
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