Increases in tropical rainfall driven by changes in frequency of organized deep convection

Jackson Tan (), Christian Jakob, William B. Rossow and George Tselioudis
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Jackson Tan: ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
Christian Jakob: ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
William B. Rossow: CREST Institute at the City College of New York
George Tselioudis: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Nature, 2015, vol. 519, issue 7544, 451-454

Abstract: An increase in the frequency of organized deep convection—essentially a large aggregation of heavily precipitating and largely stratiform clouds—is behind most of the recent increases in tropical precipitation.

Date: 2015
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