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Latent Heating Retrievals Using the TRMM Precipitation Radar: A Multi-Seasonal StudyThe Goddard Convective-Stratiform Heating (CSH) algorithm is used to retrieve profiles of latent heating over the global tropics for a period of several months using TRMM precipitation radar data. The seasonal variation of heating over the tropics is then examined. The period of interest also coincides with several TRMM field campaigns that recently occurred over the South China Sea in 1998 (SCSMEX), Brazil in 1999 (TRMM-LBA), and in the central Pacific in 1999 (KWAJEX). Sounding diagnosed Q1 budgets from these experiments could provide a means of validating the retrieved profiles of latent heating from the CSH algorithm.
Document ID
20010019992
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Tao, W.-K. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Lang, S. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Meneghini, B. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Halverson, J. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Johnson, R. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Simpson, J. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Einaudi, Franco
Date Acquired
August 20, 2013
Publication Date
October 10, 2000
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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