A Simple Model of Climatological Rainfall and Vertical Motion Patterns over the Tropical Oceans
A simple model is developed that predicts climatological rainfall, vertical motion, and diabatic heating profiles over the tropical oceans given the sea surface temperature (SST), using statistical relationships deduced from the 40-yr ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-40). The model allows for two modes of var...
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American Meteorological Society
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/57449 |