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Research in this area concerns analysis of global satellite observations of the geographic distribution and time variations of cloud properties and precipitation to elucidate their relationship to atmospheric motions and to the production of precipitation. The work is organized by the identification of cloud system types in the satellite observations and the collection of statistics describing characteristic features of their lifecyles from multiple satellite instruments.
References
- Tselioudis, G., and W.B. Rossow, 2008: Scales of variability of the tropic atmosphere derived from cloud-defined weather states. Geophys. Res. Lett., (submitted).
- Rossow, W. B., G. Tselioudis, A. Polak, and C. Jakob, 2005: Tropical climate described as a distribution of weather states indicated by distinct mesoscale cloud property mixtures. Geophy. Res. Lett., 32, L21812, doi:10.1029/2005GL024584.
- Rossow, W. B., and R. A. Schiffer, 1999: Advances in understanding clouds form ISCCP. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 80, 2261-2287.
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