This
page presents information and products developed in support of the
NASA Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes (TCSP) project. Field experiment
activities are to occur during summer 2005 in the East Pacific.
The products shown are based on the hypothesis that weak upper-tropospheric
inertial stability is important for helping determine the intensity of
convective systems. Convection should grow most readily into regions of
lowest inertial (or symmetric) stability (e.g., Emanuel 1979).
For the TCSP project, coupled satellite-model derived products are available
in real-time. These products combine geostationary satellite data and derived
cloud motion and water vapor wind vectors, upper tropospheric potential
vorticity, and quantities that diagnose the lateral outflow potential from
the anvils of deep convection. Isentropic levels between 340 and 365 K
are analyzed using products designed for the purpose of evaluating the
correlations between cloud motion-derived winds, low inertial stability
and intensity changes of tropical convection and tropical cyclones.
The products will be used to address new research ideas concerning upper
tropospheric inertial stability, outflow from convection, and the degree
that this enhances tropical storm genesis and intensification. They will
also be combined with TCSP/CAMEX research datasets to achieve the same
goal.
My
TCSP Highlights & Research Results
-
Realtime Convection & Tropical Storm Outflow and Momentum Transport
Diagnostics
- Evaluating Cumulus Momentum Transport using TRMM PR
TCSP
& TRMM Information & Data
Administrative
Web Pages
NASA's Homepage
The TRMM
Homepage
TRMM Data and Information Web Pages
The
TRMM Science Data and Information System (TSDIS) Homepage
The Goddard
DAAC (where TRMM data resides)
TRMM
Data Reading and Processing Tools
The
TSDIS Toolkit
TSDIS
Toolkit Page
Toolkit
Introduction
Toolkit
Parameter Dictionary
Toolkit
C Function Routines
Toolkit FORTRAN
Routines
TEFLUN-A/B,
-LBA, and -KWAJEX; CAMEX-3
TEFLUN
Overview Page
NOAA Aeronomy
Lab Homepage
NOAA
Aeronomy Lab TRMM Field Campaigns
NOAA
TEFLUN-A Site
NOAA
TEFLUN-B Site
Texas
A&M TEFLUN Site
University
of Iowa
NASA
EDOP Data
KWAJEX
Site
NASA
CAMEX-3 Site
All
TRMM Field Campaigns
Tropical
Weather
CIMSS
Tropical Homepage
Tropical
Prediction Center
Tropical
Cyclone Links
NWS San
Juan, Puerto Rico
Florida
Explorers! and FSU Meteorology
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