A model for the relationship between tropical precipitation and column water vapor

Several observational studies have shown a tight relationship between tropical precipitation and column-integrated water vapor. We show that the observed relationship in the tropics between column-integrated water vapor, precipitation, and its variance can be qualitatively reproduced by a simple and...

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Main Authors: Muller, Caroline, Back, Larissa E., Emanuel, Kerry Andrew, O'Gorman, Paul
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Geophysical Union 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60393
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1748-0816
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-2082