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Cloud systems, hurricanes, and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) : a tribute to Dr. Joanne Simpson / edited by Wei-Kuo Tao, Robert Adler.

Contributor(s): Series: Meteorological monographs (American Meteorological Society) ; no. 29.Boston, MA : American Meteorological Society, 2003Description: vii, 234 p. : ill., (some col) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1878220543
Other title:
  • TRMM
  • Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
Subject(s):
Contents:
Chapter 1. The Research of Dr. Joanne Simpson: Fifty Years Investigating Hurricanes, Tropical Clouds, and Cloud Systems -- Chapter 2. Joanne Simpson: An Ideal Model of Mentorship -- Chapter 3. What We Have Learned about Field Programs -- Chapter 4. From Hot Towers to TRMM: Joanne Simpson and Advances in Tropical Convection Research -- Chapter 5. Some Views on "Hot Towers" after 50 Years of Tropical Field Programs and Two Years of TRMM Data -- Chapter 6. Space-borne Inferences of Cloud Microstructure and Precipitation Processes: Synthesis, Insights, and Implications -- Chapter 7 Isotopic Variations and Internal Storm Dynamics in the Amazon Basin -- Chapter 8. Cloud Models: Their Evolution and Future Challenges -- Chapter 9. Goddard Cumulus Ensemble (GCE) Model: Application for Understanding Precipitation Processes -- Chapter 10. Hot Towers and Hurricanes: Early Observations, Theories, and Models -- Chapter 11. On the Transverse Circulation of the Hurricane -- Chapter 12. Some Aspects of Midlevel Vortex Interaction in Tropical Cyclogenesis -- Chapter 13. My View of the Early History of TRMM and Dr. Joanne Simpson's Key Role in Winning Mission Approval -- Chapter 14. Dr. Joanne Simpson and the Beginning of the TRMM Project -- Chapter 15. Working with Dr. Joanne Simpson while Managing the TRMM Project -- Chapter 16. A Short History of the TRMM Precipitation Radar -- Chapter 17. The TRMM Measurement Concept -- Chapter 18. GATE and TRMM -- Chapter 19. Performance Evaluation f Level2 TRMM Rain Profile Algorithms by Intercomparison and Hypothesis Testing -- Chapter 20. Status of TRMM Monthly Estimates of Tropical Precipitation.
Summary: This monograph is a fitting tribute to a true pioneer in tropical meteorology research and describes many of the high points of her illustrious career culminating in her management of the crucial and highly successful TRMM project.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QC925.82 .C56 2003 1 Available 50583010297285
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QC925.82 .C56 2003 2 Available 50583010343733
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references.

Chapter 1. The Research of Dr. Joanne Simpson: Fifty Years Investigating Hurricanes, Tropical Clouds, and Cloud Systems -- Chapter 2. Joanne Simpson: An Ideal Model of Mentorship -- Chapter 3. What We Have Learned about Field Programs -- Chapter 4. From Hot Towers to TRMM: Joanne Simpson and Advances in Tropical Convection Research -- Chapter 5. Some Views on "Hot Towers" after 50 Years of Tropical Field Programs and Two Years of TRMM Data -- Chapter 6. Space-borne Inferences of Cloud Microstructure and Precipitation Processes: Synthesis, Insights, and Implications -- Chapter 7 Isotopic Variations and Internal Storm Dynamics in the Amazon Basin -- Chapter 8. Cloud Models: Their Evolution and Future Challenges -- Chapter 9. Goddard Cumulus Ensemble (GCE) Model: Application for Understanding Precipitation Processes -- Chapter 10. Hot Towers and Hurricanes: Early Observations, Theories, and Models -- Chapter 11. On the Transverse Circulation of the Hurricane -- Chapter 12. Some Aspects of Midlevel Vortex Interaction in Tropical Cyclogenesis -- Chapter 13. My View of the Early History of TRMM and Dr. Joanne Simpson's Key Role in Winning Mission Approval -- Chapter 14. Dr. Joanne Simpson and the Beginning of the TRMM Project -- Chapter 15. Working with Dr. Joanne Simpson while Managing the TRMM Project -- Chapter 16. A Short History of the TRMM Precipitation Radar -- Chapter 17. The TRMM Measurement Concept -- Chapter 18. GATE and TRMM -- Chapter 19. Performance Evaluation f Level2 TRMM Rain Profile Algorithms by Intercomparison and Hypothesis Testing -- Chapter 20. Status of TRMM Monthly Estimates of Tropical Precipitation.

This monograph is a fitting tribute to a true pioneer in tropical meteorology research and describes many of the high points of her illustrious career culminating in her management of the crucial and highly successful TRMM project.

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