Cloud systems, hurricanes, and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) : a tribute to Dr. Joanne Simpson / edited by Wei-Kuo Tao, Robert Adler.
Series: Meteorological monographs (American Meteorological Society) ; no. 29.Boston, MA : American Meteorological Society, 2003Description: vii, 234 p. : ill., (some col) ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1878220543
- TRMM
- Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
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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.