Cumulus mergers in the maritime continent region

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1993 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, volume 51, pages 73-99 (issn: 0177-7971, eissn: 1436-5065,

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Authors: J. Simpson; Th. D. Keenan; B. Ferrier; R. H. Simpson; G. J. Holland;

doi: 10.1007/bf01080881

Cumulus mergers in the maritime continent region

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We examine a family of tall (up to 20 km) cumulonimbus complexes that develop almost daily over an adjacent pair of flat islands in the Maritime Continent region north of Darwin, Australia, and that are known locally as “Hectors”. Nine cases observed by a rawinsonde network, surface observations (including radiation and soil measurements), the TRMM/TOGA radar, and one day of aircraft photography are used to analyse the development, rainfall, surface energy budgets, and vertical structure of these convective systems.

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