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Tropical cloud and precipitation regimes as seen from near‐simultaneous TRMM, CloudSat, and CALIPSO observations and comparison with ISCCP
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2017
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Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122(11), 5988-6003
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Journal Title:Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
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Description:Although Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and CloudSat/CALIPSO fly in different orbits, they frequently cross each other so that for the period between 2006 and 2010, a total of 15,986intersect lines occurred within 20 min of each other from 30°S to 30°N, providing a rare opportunity to study tropical cloud and precipitation regimes and their internal vertical structure from near-simultaneous measurements by these active sensors. A k-means cluster analysis of TRMM and CloudSat matchups identi fies three tropical cloud and precipitation regimes: the first two regimes correspond to, respectively, organized deep convection with heavy rain and cirrus anvils with moderate rain; the third regime is a convectively suppressed regime that can be further divided into three subregimes, which correspond to, respectively,stratocumulus clouds with drizzle, cirrus overlying low clouds, and nonprecipitating cumulus. Inclusion of
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Source:Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122(11), 5988-6003
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ISSN:2169-897X;2169-8996;
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