Overshooting convection in tropical cyclones
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چکیده
[1] Using infrared satellite imagery, best-track data, and reanalysis data, tropical cyclones are shown to contain a disproportionate amount of the deepest convection in the tropics. Although tropical cyclones account for only 7% of the deep convection in the tropics, they account for about 15% of the deep convection with cloud-top temperatures below the monthly averaged tropopause temperature and 29% of the clouds that attain a cloud-top temperature 15 K below the temperature of the tropopause. This suggests that tropical cyclones could play an important role in setting the humidity of the stratosphere. Citation: Romps, D. M., and Z. Kuang (2009), Overshooting convection in tropical cyclones, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L09804, doi:10.1029/2009GL037396.
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