[1] Methods to detect tropical deep convective clouds and convective overshooting from measurements at the three water vapor channels (183.3 ± 1, 183.3 ± 3, and 183.3 ± 7 GHz) of the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B (AMSU-B) are presented. Thresholds for the brightness temperature differences between the three channels are suggested as criterion to detect deep convective clouds, and an order ...

Observational and modeling studies have revealed the relationships between convective–stratiform rain proportion and the vertical distributions of vertical motion, latent heating, and moistening in mesoscale convective systems. Therefore, remote sensing techniques that can be used to quantify the area coverage of convective or stratiform rainfall could provide useful information regarding the d...

We have introduced hydrogen diffusion in our evolution code in such a way that the chemical composition is computed taking simultaneously into account diffusion and nuclear reactions. The first model was obtained with the diffusion coefficients given by Thoul et al.(1995). Its frequencies show that the model should be improved. Five other models been have obtained with modifications of the diff...

A theoretical approach proposed by Elperin et al. Phys. Rev. E 66, 066305 2002 is developed further to investigate formation of large-scale coherent structures in a nonrotating turbulent convection via excitation of a large-scale instability. In particular, the convective-wind instability that causes formation of large-scale coherent motions in the form of cells, can be excited in a shear-free ...

A theoretical approach proposed in Phys. Rev. E 66, 066305 (2002) is developed further to investigate formation of large-scale coherent structures in a non-rotating turbulent convection via excitation of a large-scale instability. In particular, the convective-wind instability that causes formation of large-scale coherent motions in the form of cells, can be excited in a shear-free regime. It w...

The influence of convection and temperature on the radiation impedance of an open duct termination exhausting a hot gas is commonly described by a complex theory. A simplified analytical expression is proposed for low frequencies. Both models assume a free jet with uniform velocity bounded by infinitely thin shear layers. The convective velocity that should be assumed when applying these models...

Measurements are presented on the influence of Schmidt number on the frequency of the mass transfer fluctuations at a solid boundary. The shape of the spectral function is similar at all Schmidt numbers. A relation between the mass transfer fluctuations and the fluctuating velocity field can be obtained only at high frequencies. A comparison of the scale and the frequency of the mass transfer f...

[1] The sensitivity of microwave brightness temperatures at the frequencies between 89 and 190 GHz to surface emissivities and hydrometeors in a tropical deep convective cloud system is investigated by simulations, using the Goddard Cumulus Ensemble model data of a simulated oceanic tropical squall line as input for a radiative transfer model. It is found that only the window channel at 89 GHz ...

Aerosol effects on condensed water and precipitation in a tropical cloud system driven by deep convective clouds are investigated for two-dimensional simulations of 2-day duration. Although an assumed 10-fold increase in aerosol concentration results in a similar temporal evolution of mean precipitation and a small (9 %) difference in cumulative precipitation between the highand low-aerosol cas...