Zhiming Kuang, Jack Margolis, Geoffrey Toon, David Crisp, Yuk Yung
[1] We introduce a strategy for measuring the column-averaged CO2 dry air volume mixing ratio XCO2 from space. It employs high resolution spectra of reflected sunlight taken simultaneously in...
2005: A new approach for 3D cloudresolving simulations of large-scale atmospheric circulation (2008)
Zhiming Kuang, Peter N. Blossey, Christopher S. Bretherton
[1] We present a computationally efficient new method for simulating the interactions of large-scale atmospheric circulations with deep convection in a 3D cloud-resolving model. This is accomplished...
Measured HDO/H 2O ratios across the tropical tropopause (2008)
Zhiming Kuang, Geoffrey C. Toon, Paul O. Wennberg, Yuk L. Yung
[1] We present the first simultaneous measurements of HDO and H2O in the tropical upper troposphere (UT) and lower stratosphere (LS) as derived from infrared solar absorption spectra acquired by the...
2007: Testing the fixed anvil temperature hypothesis in a cloudresolving model (2008)
Zhiming Kuang, Dennis L. Hartmann
Using cloud-resolving simulations of tropical radiative–convective equilibrium, it is shown that the anvil temperature changes by less than 0.5 K with a 2-K change in SST, lending support to the...
The tropical tropopause layer (TTL), and in particular the cold point tropopause, has been previously suggested as a feature decoupled from convection. Using a cloud-resolving model, the authors...
Kuang, Zhiming, Bretherton, Christopher S.
In this paper, an idealized, high-resolution simulation of a gradually forced transition from shallow, nonprecipitating to deep, precipitating cumulus convection is described; how the cloud and...
The theme of this thesis is to apply remote sensing data on problems concerning the climate system. It is grouped into two parts. Part I (Chapters 1, 2) is devoted to spectroscopic measurements of...
� 2004 American Meteorological Society The Norm Dependence of Singular Vectors (2003)
For a linearized system such as ��/�t � M�, singular vector analysis can be used to find patterns that give the largest or smallest ratios between the sizes of M � and �. Such analyses...
The theme of this thesis is to apply remote sensing data on problems concerning the climate system. It is grouped into two parts. Part I (Chapters 1, 2) is devoted to spectroscopic measurements of...