Browsing Physics & Atmospheric Science by Subject "Troposphere"

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  • A low-level circulation in the tropics 

    Folkins, Ian; Fueglistaler, S.; Lesins, G.; Mitovski, T. (American Meteorological Society, 2008)
    Deep convective tropical systems are strongly convergent in the midtroposphere. Horizontal wind measurements from a variety of rawinsonde arrays in the equatorial Pacific and Caribbean are used to calculate the mean dynamical ...

  • Origin of lapse rate changes in the upper tropical troposphere 

    Folkins, Ian (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
    Vertical motions in clouds arise from a variety of thermodynamic processes, including latent heat release, evaporative cooling, melting, and cloud radiative heating. In the Tropics, the net upward vertical mass flux from ...

  • Tropospheric aerosol optical thickness from the GOCART model and comparisons with satellite and sun photometer measurements 

    Chin, Mian; Ginoux, Paul; Kinne, Stefan; Torres, Omar; Holben, Brent N.; Duncan, Bryan N.; Martin, Randall V.; Logan, Jennifer A.; Higurashi, Akiko; Nakajima, Teruyuki (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
    The Georgia Institute of Technology-Goddard Global Ozone Chemistry Aerosol Radiation and Transport (GOCART) model is used to simulate the aerosol optical thickness t for major types of tropospheric aerosols including ...

  • The vertical structure of tropical convection and its impact on the budgets of water vapor and ozone 

    Folkins, Ian; Martin, Randall V. (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
    Convective clouds in the Tropics that penetrate the boundary layer inversion preferentially detrain into a shallow outflow layer (2-5 km) or a deep outflow layer (10-17 km). The properties of these layers are diagnosed ...