Satellite Survey of Tropical Deep Convection Particularly Stratospheric Penetrators William B. Rossow 12 June 2006

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Monthly Variation of “More Convective” State in Tropical Longitude Sectors

Definitions of Penetrators “IN STRATOSPHERE” Height > Fixed or Tropopause Height Temperature < Fixed or Tropopause Temperature ► IR Brightness Temperature = Cloud Top (IR spectrum with CO2 Q-branch in emission) ► Microwave Scattering = Precipitation Top ► TRMM Radar = Precipitation Top ► CloudSat Radar = Cloud Top ► Calipso Lidar = Cloud Top

Average Tropopause Temperature

Monthly Mean Tropopause Temperatures Tropical Latitudes Higher Latitudes

Convective System Minimum Temperatures 200 K Summation of systems <=200??? Check total

CS TMIN < TT

% as function of all penetrating cs. (not all cs’s)

Mean CS temp CS radius

Correlation of Microwave Polarization Features and Lightning Cloud Top Temperature LIS Detection

Tmin time- Local time where tmin first occurs for Tmin<TT

Tmin time occurrence as proportion of total family length

Zonal Seasonal Mean Pressure-Latitude Cross-Sections of Cloud Frequency of Occurrence Land DJF Land JJA Ocean DJF Ocean JJA

CloudSat and Calipso

TRMM

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Replacement slides - It seems that I left out some penetrating cs’s at the high end of the temperature scale - this is evident in the tmin maps, and the TT-tmin hist and the tmin frequencies. below are replacement slides New slides with land water at end

Histogram of tmin where land % is with respect to land total and water % is with respect to water total

Global Distribution of Cloud Water and Water Vapor

Average Cloud Particle Sizes

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