Bimodality in tropical water vapour

By Chidong Zhang, B. Mapes, Brian J. Soden. 2003

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• HyperART: non-invasive quantification of leaf traits using hyperspectral absorption-reflectance-transmittance imaging (2015, methodology): “The bimodal amplitude equation (Ab 1⁄4 Am−Av Am ; [55]) was used to analyse the CLSI histograms.”
• Organization of tropical convection in low vertical wind shears: Role of updraft entrainment (2017, background): “While previous work has noted bimodality in water vapor, this characteristic tends to be restricted to the upper troposphere detrainment zone [e.g. Zhang et al., 2003].”
• The Mechanics of Gross Moist Stability (2009, background): “This behavior may be responsible for the observed bistable humidity structure of the tropical troposphere (Zhang et al. 2003).”
• The GFDL Global Atmosphere and Land Model AM4.0/LM4.0: 2. Model Description, Sensitivity Studies, and Tuning Strategies (2018, background): “Reducing the lateral mixing rate in a more humid environment attempts to very roughly account for the effect of convective organization on cumulus mixing because a more humid atmosphere is conducive for organized convection, resulting in less mixing of air with the properties of the large-scale envi”
• The impact of cirrus clouds on tropical troposphere-to-stratosphere transport (2006, unknown): “This implies a bimodal water vapor distribution as observed in the tropical upper tro-posphere (Zhang et al., 2003).”
• Tropospheric water vapor, convection, and climate (2010, background): “Many, though not all, studies have argued that humidity pdf’s are bimodal [see Zhang et al., 2003].”
• Global‐scale convective aggregation: Implications for the Madden‐Julian Oscillation (2015, background): “The MJO is the dominant form of tropical intraseasonal variability, but a theory accounting for its major features remains elusive [Zhang, 2005; Zhang et al., 2013].”
• Sensitivity of moist convection to environmental humidity (2004, background): “Johnson (1997) reviewed observations from the tropical TOGA–COARE∗ campaign, showing strong associations between humidity in the free atmosphere and the occurrence of strong organized convection (see also Zhang et al. (2003) and references therein).”
• Process-evaluation of tropospheric humidity simulated by general circulation models using water vapor isotopologues: 1. Comparison between models and observations (2012, background): “…Sherwood, 1996; T. Schneider et al., 2006; Folkins and Martin, 2005], detrainment of condensate from convective clouds and its subsequent evaporation [e.g., Wright et al., 2009], evaporation of the falling precipitation [e.g., Folkins and Martin, 2005] and lateral mixing [e.g., Zhang et al., 2003].”