Browsing Folkins, Ian by Subject "Troposphere"

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  • A low-level circulation in the tropics 

    Folkins, Ian, S. Fueglistaler, G. Lesins, and T. Mitovski. 2008. "A low-level circulation in the tropics." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 65(3): 1019-1034.
    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. 2002. "Origin of lapse rate changes in the upper tropical troposphere." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 59(5): 992-1005.
    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 ...