Data · dataset · 2026
Investigating the role of cloud-radiation interactions in subseasonal tropical disturbances
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Cloud locking, a method that prescribes cloud properties for radiative tendency calculations, is traditionally used to explore climate feedbacks, but here is applied novelly to investigate cloud-radiation interaction (CRI) impacts on subseasonal tropical variability.
Description
The approach minimizes mean state differences between control (CRI active) and experimental simulations (CRI disabled) of the Community Earth System Model.
Disabling CRI weakens amplitudes of the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) by 10-35% and equatorial Rossby waves by 10-30% yet strengthens Kelvin waves by 10-40%. MJO weakening results from suppressed radiation-convection positive feedbacks and increased gross moist stability. Kelvin waves strengthen from reduced convective inhibition and reduced radiative damping on temperature variance.
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The results are compared to a recently proposed theory that describes a continuum of tropical disturbances. MJO survival, when its primary maintenance mechanism (CRI) is eliminated, stresses the importance of advection and surface flux processes.
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- Publisher page n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7ww7mxc ↗
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- data.ucar.edu /dataset/investigating-the-role-of-cloud-radiation-interactions… ↗
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Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.ucar.edu/api/3/action/package_show?id=6a06de7b-7bf4-4daa-b07a-a18c63843… ↗
metadata API · from data ucar edu
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
- Inferred from text
- Cloud physics 76%
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