Sentences with phrase «tropical upper atmosphere»

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This deep convection, the most conspicuous feature of the tropical circulation, in the company of precipitation transports latent heat from the earth's surface to the upper atmosphere.

One theory is that heat from tropical rain warms parts of the Earth's upper atmosphere in ways that favor the formation of the classic «wavenumber - 5» pattern that has alternately drenched and dried parts of California.

However, radiation changes at the top of the atmosphere from the 1980s to 1990s, possibly related in part to the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, appear to be associated with reductions in tropical upper - level cloud cover, and are linked to changes in the energy budget at the surface and changes in observed ocean heat content.

Despite consistently warm waters, tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea typically don't reach the higher end of the hurricane scale because winds in the upper atmosphere tend to cut them off.

They found increases in sea surface temperature and upper ocean heat content made the ocean more conducive to tropical cyclone intensification, while enhanced convective instability made the atmosphere more favorable for the growth of these storms.

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Heat from anomalously warm ocean temperatures is transported vertically and eventually northward by unusually active tropical convection (thunderstorms), warming the upper atmosphere in the lower latitudes.

This is because hurricanes get their energy from the temperature difference between the warm tropical ocean and the cold upper atmosphere.

No hot spot in the upper tropical atmosphere, as all models predict.

Lindzen's essential argument was that warming would make an increase in tropical thunderstorm clouds, whose downdrafts would remove moisture from the upper atmosphere.

The reason why Figure 9.1 in IPCC AR4 is disconcerting is that the temperature anomaly in the upper tropical atmosphere bears the signature of increased moist convective activity, which means that the hydrological cycle probably gets perturbed by increased GHG forcings, hence affecting rainfall patterns.

There are a lot of collisions in tropical thunder clouds that are rapidly delivering energy (and surface emitted CO2) to the upper atmosphere where it is free to radiate to space rather than back to the surface.