Cloud Systems, Hurricanes, and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)
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Cloud Systems, Hurricanes, and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)
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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.
Table of 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