Global Variability of Mesoscale Convective System Anvil Structure from A-Train Satellite Data
By Jian Yuan, R. Houze. 2010
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Abstract Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) in the tropics produce extensive anvil clouds, which significantly affect the transfer of radiation. This study develops an objective method to identify MCSs and their anvils by combining data from three A-train satellite instruments: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) for cloud-top size and coldness, Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) for rain area size and intensity, and CloudSat for horizontal and vertical dimensions of anvils. The authors distinguish three types of MCSs: small and large separated MCSs and connected MCSs. The latter are MCSs sharing a contiguous rain area. Mapping of the objectively identified MCSs shows patterns of MCSs that are consistent with previous studies of tropical convection, with separated MCSs dominant over Africa and the Amazon regions and connected MCSs favored over the warm pool of the Indian and west Pacific Oceans. By separating the anvil from the raining regions of ...
Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change
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- Observational Evidence for Relationships between the Degree of Aggregation of Deep Convection, Water Vapor, Surface Fluxes, and Radiation (2012, background): “This is consistent with the fact that anvils of connected MCSs are less extended than those of separated MCSs (Yuan and Houze 2010).”
- Structure and Evolution of Mesoscale Convective Systems: Sensitivity to Cloud Microphysics in Convection‐Permitting Simulations Over the United States (2018, methodology): “This method is similar to the MCS identification method of Yuan and Houze (2010) in that infrared temperature contours are used to find separate cold centers and rain areas with higher intensity cores are identified.”
- A Global High‐Resolution Mesoscale Convective System Database Using Satellite‐Derived Cloud Tops, Surface Precipitation, and Tracking (2021, background): “Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD034202. https://doi. org/10.1029/2020JD034202 Received 4 NOV 2020 Accepted 27 MAR 2021 Author Contributions: Conceptualization: Zhe Feng Data curation: Zhe Feng, Dandan Chen, Jianping Guo Formal analysis: Zhe Feng, Nana Liu, Jingyu Wang Fundi”
- Fifty Years of Research on the Madden‐Julian Oscillation: Recent Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives (2020, background): “E), were investigated by Yuan and Houze (2010, 2012).”