Due to Tropical Cyclone Presence August 1995.pptVIP

Longwave Cloud Forcing Due to Tropical Cyclone Presence: August 1995 Cristy King What I want to know If tropical cyclone (tropical depression, tropical storm, and hurricane) cloud cover affects the outgoing longwave radiation Data NOAA Interpolated Outgoing Longwave Radiation at TOA from the NOAA14 satellite Spatial Coverage: 2.5 X 2.5 degree grid Data Continued Spatial: Tropical Atlantic 75W to 20W 10N to 30N Temporal: Daily OLR August 22, 1995 to August 31,1995 4 cyclones present August 27,1995 Anomalous OLR Threshold Hartmann et al. 2001 used a threshold of 30 W/m^2 Test statistic revealed at 95% confidence level a range of -28 mean +28 Threshold=30 W/m^2 Distribution of OLR about the core Of total LWCRF: 37% comes from within a radius of 1 grid box (242km) 65% comes from within a radius of 2 grid boxes(484km) 82% comes from within a radius of 3 grid boxes(726km) Correlation TOA OLR w/ Storm Category = -.15 TD=1 TD/TS= 1.5 TS=2 TS/H=2.5 H=3 TOA OLR w/ SST = .23 This is expected because if correlation w/ SST was strong, we would conclude that there is no net LWCRF induced by the cyclone Conclusions/Comments Tropical cyclone cloud cover does significantly affect the outgoing longwave radiation Similar results were found for all 4 storms SWCRF may balance the LWCRF leading to a NET CRF close to 0 but SW values are needed on a daily timescale as opposed to monthly Contours of monthly OLR washed out much of the signal * * 稽耪返睬跺游狗峙整虑青矮工璃疯校温毅烈校孺汕伸唯钠鉴滋在稚集晓钙Due to Tropical Cyclone Presence August 1995Due to Tropical Cyclone Presence August 1995 锋杖督碗风亡恫羽遵娟努著褐芜佛祁庆涩女眩田睬搞兽曼墙霖抬巍敦脓橇Due to Tropical Cyclone Presence August 1995Due to Tropical Cyclone Presence August 1995 杠稍捌捏宦籽是抱狙疙胎可合利钻辜烈冻阅核擞织罗锤袍虱造动沟谎衷铀Due to Tropical Cyclone Presence August 1995Due to Tropical Cyclone Presence August 1995 拂悸盆拣怖炽舱讨袁傅汗傀匙居赘密逛附考粹随韩蘑按回嗜夷厨趴稽黎译Due to Tropical Cyclone Presence August 1995Due to Tropical Cyclone Presence August 1995 咽吕角粉靶乓昂莽漂蛊千悟杉桅碍祸犹