Multi-Scale Precipitation Variability Over the Tropics

New Insights from Observations and Modelling

Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay, Boualem Khouider, Shoichi Shige

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443140310
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Meteorology & Climatology

Multi-Scale Precipitation Variability Over the Tropics: New Insights from Observations and Modelling explores the latest developments in the observation and modelling of tropical precipitation. Researchers will benefit from this detailed analysis of recent advancements in the field. The text first examines recent satellite and RADAR observations and how those breakthroughs enhance our understanding. This is followed by a review of NASA A-train observations as well as extreme events. The editors also look at predicting precipitation variability with a state-of-the-art ensemble forecast system. The text wraps with a discussion of multiscale cloud and precipitation variability with the backdrop of a changing climate.This text will provide researchers with new insights and a deeper understanding of the latest advances in the observation and modelling of tropical precipitation. - Examines the new paradigm in understanding and modeling tropical meteorology - Analyzes recent discoveries in multiscale cloud and precipitation that will provide new insights about tropical cloud and precipitation physics and dynamics - Provides an innovative approach to representing tropical clouds in numerical models that will help readers understand the latest breakthroughs in the representation of tropical clouds in numerical models

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter 1 Multi-scale manifestation of tropical precipitation as evidenced from recent satellite observations
• Chapter 2 New insights on tropical clouds and rains from RADAR observations
• Chapter 3 Exploring the tropics: Advancing cloud and precipitation studies with combined RADAR and satellite observations
• Chapter 4 Relationship between extreme rainfall events and cloud optical properties over tropics
• Chapter 5 Translating the new observational insights to improve the tropical cloud variability in climate model
• Chapter 6.1 Toward a breakthrough in convection parameterization using multiscale and multicloud modeling constrained by observations—Part I: Motivation and model development
• Chapter 6.2 Toward a breakthrough in convection parameterization using multiscale and multicloud modeling constrained by observations—Part II: Implementation in CAM and preliminary results
• Chapter 7 Simulating tropical multiscale cloud and precipitation variability with a global convection-permitting model
• Chapter 8 Predicting the multiscale cloud and precipitation variability with a state-of-the-art ensemble forecast system
• Chapter 9 Heavy precipitating mid-tropospheric monsoonal systems in a warming climate
• Index