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Tropical dynamics

Sea surface temperature and precipitation anomalies as a function of time
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More Clustered Clouds Amplify Tropical Rainfall Extremes

by Sarah Kang 15 October 202015 October 2020

Both satellite observations and model simulations reveal that more aggregated convection amplifies the increase in extreme rainfall events on a year-to-year basis.

Graphs showing mean static energy in the subcloud layer as a function of latitude and month over land and ocean for convective and non-convective regions
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How Does Convection Work Over the Tropics?

by Suzana Camargo 14 May 202012 May 2020

A new conceptual framework on how convection works in the tropics helps advance understanding of the contrast between land and ocean and how the tropics will respond to climate change.

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Is Global Warming Suppressing Canonical El Niño?

by K. B. Karnauskas 16 November 2017

A study explores the relationship between diverse El Niño events and the background state of the tropical Pacific.

Researchers examine how cloud feedbacks are influenced by regional climate warming
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Do Clouds React to Regional Warming?

by S. Witman 12 October 2017

Researchers illuminate how and why cloud feedbacks depend on spatial patterns of global warming.

Satellite image of land surface in South Asia, observed in August 2004, from the Blue Marble data set.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

The Competing Climate Effects of Elevation and Albedo

by Terri Cook 1 August 201715 August 2017

Variations in surface reflectivity are as important as surface elevation changes in determining regional climate at nonpolar latitudes, according to a new modeling study.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Climate Change Influences the Dynamics Behind Tropical Cyclones

by L. Strelich 27 April 201627 April 2016

A new model reveals how cumulus convection, humidity, and tropical circulations interact as global temperatures rise.

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Rethinking How Tropical Convection Works

by C. Minnehan 17 July 201517 July 2015

Researchers look at previous Walker circulation models and ask, Does damping truly matter?

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