Some Views On “Hot Towers” after 50 Years of Tropical Field Programs and Two Years of TRMM Data

By E. Zipser. 2003

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. R. Houze
2. M. Montgomery
3. David M. Romps
4. P. O’Gorman
5. Martin S. Singh
6. M. Nicholls
7. Stephen R. Guimond
8. Gerald M. Heymsfield

In Global and Planetary Change

1. M. Montgomery
2. R. Houze
3. David M. Romps
4. P. O’Gorman
5. Martin S. Singh
6. M. Nicholls
7. Lin Tian
8. Z. Kuang

Citations in the corpus

• A Simplified Dynamical System for Tropical Cyclone Intensity Prediction (2009, background): “With both effects included, the vertical velocities are on the high side but within the range of what has been observed in tropical convection (Zipser 2003).”
• Influence of entrainment on the thermal stratification in simulations of radiative‐convective equilibrium (2013, methodology): “A role for entrainment in helping to determine cloud buoyancies in moist convection is supported by CRM simulations and some observational studies [e.g., Derbyshire et al., 2004; Holloway and Neelin, 2009; Kuang and Bretherton, 2006; Romps and Kuang, 2010; Zipser, 2003; Molinari et al., 2012].”
• A Vortical Hot Tower Route to Tropical Cyclogenesis. (2006, background): “Elaborating on this definition, J. Simpson referred to hot towers as “undilute or nearly undilute penetrative cumulonimbus clouds that carried high e air from the subcloud layer to the upper troposphere” (Simpson et al. 1998; Zipser 2003; Anthes 2003).”
• Multiscale Observations of Hurricane Dennis (2005): The Effects of Hot Towers on Rapid Intensification (2010, background): “The upper section contains a wider ( ; 5 km) updraft with velocities increasing with height up to the EDOP-defined cloud top, suggesting the presence of buoyancy powered by the latent heat of freezing (Zipser 2003).”
• Clouds in Tropical Cyclones (2010, background): “It has been suggested that stronger vertical velocities should occur at higher levels because their buoyancy is boosted by the release of latent heat of fusion (Lord et al. 1984; Zipser 2003).”
• Characteristics of Deep Tropical and Subtropical Convection from Nadir-Viewing High-Altitude Airborne Doppler Radar (2010, background): “There is still debate over the amount of entrainment in tropical convection and whether tropical oceanic convection is un-diluted (e.g., Zipser 2003).”
• Do Undiluted Convective Plumes Exist in the Upper Tropical Troposphere (2010, background): “Instead, as originally argued by Zipser (2003), fusion appears to be the key.”