The principal objective of this study is to determine whether or not the penetration of a passive tracer is analogous to the penetration of a greenhouse-gas-induced heating.

In this thesis, the sensitivity of the Earth's climate is studied by modeling past climatic variations with two-dimensional seasonal energy balance model. This thesis consists of two parts. The first part is a study of the ...

Global comparison between the MISR and MODIS cloud masks shows large discrepancies over regions dominated by small clouds. This discrepancy was further explored using an ASTER dataset at 15m resolution over the tropical ...

During Cold Air Outbreak (CAO) events over North America during winter, cold dry air is often advected over the ocean offshore of the East Coast. A motivating hypothesis of this study is that the air-sea fluxes associated ...

While the overall understanding of moist convective processes has advanced greatly, the two-way interconnections between convection initiation, updraft structure, and subsequent cold pool generation are not well understood. ...

Arakawa and Schubert (1974) developed a cumulus parameterization scheme in a framework that conceptually divides the mutual interaction of the cumulus convection and large-scale disturbance into the categories of large-scale ...

Data acquired by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Convair-580, equipped with cloud and aerosol probes during 5 sorties through single-layer arctic stratocumulus on 8 April, 18 April, and 26 April 2008 during ...

To understand and resolve uncertainties regarding climate change, accurate observations must be utilized. Satellite remote sensing provides the best way to obtain global observations, yet the assumptions required to convert ...

In NH winter, the Pacific storm track tends to reach its maximum intensity during early and late winter, leaving a distinct minimum in January, which is known as "midwinter minimum" (MWMIN) of the Pacific storm track. The ...

The stratospheric final warming is the final transition of the zonal winds from wintertime westerlies to summertime easterlies as the solar heating of the high latitude stratosphere increases in the springtime. Recent ...