A "New" Mechanism for the Diurnal Variation of Convection over the Tropical Western Pacific Ocean
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In the companion abstract in this proceedings (Parsons and Yoneyama 1998), we discussed dry intrusions and their origins. It was found that these dry intrusions over the equatorial waters actually originated in the middle latitude westerly winds. The reader is referred to that paper for discussion of the origins and for further background information on these dry intrusion events. In this paper, we will discuss the impact of these dry intrusions on the atmosphere-ocean system over the Tropical Western Pacific (TWP). We will concentrate on the diurnal cycle of convection that forms in the wakes of these events.
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