Sentences with phrase «using tropical rainfall»

The influence of the MJO on the phase and amplitude of the diurnal cycle of rainfall during Australian summer -LSB-[December — February (DJF)-RSB--RSB- over the Maritime Continent (MC) and northern Australia is investigated using the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) 3B42 and 3G68 datasets.

This 3 - D simulated Flyby was created using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Precipitation Radar data from 1:25 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012.

Not exact matches

Previous research has suggested a connection between coal - burning and the Sahel drought, but this was the first study that used decades of historical observations to find that this drought was part of a global shift in tropical rainfall, and then used multiple climate models to determine why.

Kohyama and Wallace used 15 years of data collected by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite from 1998 to 2012 to show that the rain is indeed slightly lighter when the moon is high.

The UM Rosenstiel School researchers used historical observations of cloud cover as a proxy for wind velocity in climate models to analyze the Walker circulation, the atmospheric air flow and heat distribution in the tropic Pacific region that affects patterns of tropical rainfall.

They were unable to find a complete and reliable published rainfall record for the entire watershed using ground - based measurements, so they analyzed rainfall data from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission sarainfall record for the entire watershed using ground - based measurements, so they analyzed rainfall data from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission sarainfall data from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission saRainfall Measuring Mission satellite.

To do so, Ichoku and his colleagues used satellite records from 2001 to 2014 — including data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission — to analyze the impact of fires on various water cycle indicators, namely soil moisture, precipitation, evapotranspiration and vegetation greenness.

«Indigenous people are telling us rainfall and river levels have changed; the fires they're dealing with are different now; and the climate systems they used to depend on for growing crops have become unpredictable,» said Steve Schwartzman, lead author of the study and director of tropical forest policy at Environmental Defense Fund.

One year (August 1998ï ¿ 1/2 July 1999) of tropical rainfall estimates from the Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks (PERSIANN) system were used to produce monthly means of rainfall diurnal cycles at hourly and 1ï ¿ 1/2 ï ¿ 1/2 1ï ¿ 1/2 scales over a domain (30ï ¿ 1/2 Sï ¿ 1/2 30ï ¿ 1/2 N, 80ï ¿ 1/2 Eï ¿ 1/2 10ï ¿ 1/2 W) from the Americas across the Pacific Ocean to Australia and eastern Asia.

Using hourly rain gauge records and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission 3B42 from 1998 to 2006, the authors present an analysis of the diurnal characteristics of summer rainfall over subtropical EaRainfall Measuring Mission 3B42 from 1998 to 2006, the authors present an analysis of the diurnal characteristics of summer rainfall over subtropical Earainfall over subtropical East Asia.

A new study using a high - resolution stalagmite record from Australia with cave sites in southern China reveal a close coupling of monsoon rainfall on both continents, with numerous synchronous pluvial and drought periods, suggesting that the tropical rain belt expanded and contracted numerous times at multidecadal to centennial scales.

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) data during Juneâ $ «August 1998â $ «2003 are used to investigate diurnal variations of rain and cloud systems over the tropics and midlatitudes.

We present the first tree - ring reconstruction of rainfall in tropical Africa using a 200 - year regional chronology based on samples of Pterocarpus angolensis from Zimbabwe.

Using northeastern Australian rainfall, Latif et al. (1997) showed that rainfall was much increased during decades when the tropical Pacific was anomalously cold (the 1950s and 1970s).

By using an idealized heating to force a comprehensive atmospheric model, the large negative anomalous latent heating associated with the observed deficit in central tropical Pacific rainfall is shown to be mainly responsible for the global quasi-stationary waves in the upper troposphere.

It uses satellite data from MODIS vegetation indices (MOD13Q1 and NDVI) and products related to presence of water bodies (MOD35) as well as Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation data to detect anthropogenic changes in vegetation cover every 16 days.

Dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa may help modify clouds and rainfall both in Africa and across the tropical North Atlantic, as far away as Barbados, according to a study that uses 16 years of data from NASA satellites, ground measurements and computer models.

Wright et al. (2015) found model - projected increases in rainfall rates for U.S. landfalling tropical cyclones using this modeling system.

The study, based on a computer model used to simulate rainfall under different land - use conditions, found that cutting down tropical forests in West Africa reduces precipitation over neighboring forest areas by about 50 percent due to increased temperatures over cropland areas.

The team used newly available NASA satellite observations of rainfall and vegetation, and a computer model that predicts atmospheric wind flow patterns, to explore the impact of the Earth's tropical forests.