Mesoscale Group TOGA COARE-related publications

Mapes, B. E., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 1992: Satellite-observed cloud clusters in the TOGA-COARE domain. TOGA Notes, April, 5-8.

Webster, P. J., and Roger Lukas, 1992: TOGA COARE: The Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 73, 1377-1416.

Mapes, B. E., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 1993: Cloud clusters and superclusters over the oceanic warm pool. Mon. Wea. Rev., 121, 1398-1415.

Chen, S. S., R. A. Houze, Jr., and B. E. Mapes, 1994: Satellite-observed cloud clusters during TOGA COARE. Preprints, Ninth Conference on the Middle Atmosphere and Seventh Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Monterey, American Meteorological Society, 22-25.

Chen, S. S., C. Zhang, and R. A. Houze, Jr., 1995: Surface diurnal variations - a link between solar heating and diurnal cycle of tropical convection? Preprints, 21st Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Miami, American Meteorological Society, 518-520.

Chen, S. S., R. A. Houze, Jr., B. E. Mapes, S. R. Brodzik, and S. E. Yuter, 1995: TOGA COARE satellite data summaries available on the World Wide Web. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 76, 329-333.

Kingsmill, D. E., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 1995: Airborne Doppler-radar observations of gust fronts and midlevel inflow in COARE mesoscale convective systems. Preprints, 27th Conference on Radar Meteorology, Vail, American Meteorological Society, 737-739.

Mapes, B. E., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 1995: Diabatic divergence profiles in western Pacific mesoscale convective systems. J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 1807-1828.

Yuter, S. E., R. A. Houze, Jr., B. F. Smull, F. D. Marks, Jr., J. R. Daugherty, and S. R. Brodzik, 1995: TOGA COARE aircraft mission summary images: An electronic atlas. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 76, 319-328.

Chen, S. S., R. A. Houze, Jr., and B. E. Mapes, 1996: Multiscale variability of deep convection in relation to large-scale circulation in TOGA COARE. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 1380-1409.

Chen, S. S., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 1997: Diurnal variation and life cycle of deep convective systems over the tropical Pacific warm pool. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 123, 357-388.

Houze, R. A., Jr., 1997: Stratiform precipitation in regions of convection: A meteorological paradox? Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78, 2179-2196.

Kingsmill, D. E., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 1997: Inflow and outflow characteristics of convection in TOGA COARE. Preprints, 22nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Fort Collins, American Meteorological Society, 45-46.

Yuter, S. E., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 1997: Measurements of raindrop size distributions over the Pacific warm pool and implications for Z-R relations. J. Appl. Meteor., 36, 847-867.

Chen, S. S., C. Zhang, and R. A. Houze, Jr., 1998: The diurnal cycle of atmospheric convection and surface and boundary-layer conditions over the warm pool. COARE98: Proceedings, Conference on TOGA-COARE, Boulder, World Meteorological Organization, WCRP-107, WMP/TD 940, p. 323.

Godfrey, J. S., R. A. Houze, Jr., K.-M. Lau, R. Lukas, P. J. Webster, and R. A. Weller, 1998: TOGA-COARE: How well have we progressed towards understanding air-sea coupling in the warm pool? COARE98: Proceedings, Conference on TOGA-COARE, Boulder, World Meteorological Organization, WCRP-107, WMP/TD 940, 1-15.

Godfrey, J. S., R. A. Houze, Jr., R. H. Johnson, R. Lukas, J.-L. Redelsperger, A. Sumi, and R. Weller, 1998: Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE): An interim report. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 14,395-14,450.

Houze, R. A., Jr., S. S. Chen, D. E. Kingsmill, Y. Serra, and S. E. Yuter, 1998: Convection over the Pacific warm pool in relation to the atmospheric Kelvin-Rossby wave. COARE98: Proceedings, Conference on TOGA-COARE, Boulder, World Meteorological Organization, WCRP-107, WMP/TD 940, 389-390.

Serra, Y. L., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 1998: Mean thermodynamic profiles in COARE in relation to the eastern Pacific. COARE98: Proceedings, Conference on TOGA-COARE, Boulder, World Meteorological Organization, WCRP-107, WMP/TD 940, 401-402.

Yuter, S. E., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 1998: The natural variability of precipitating clouds over the western Pacific warm pool. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 124, 53-99.

Kingsmill, D. E., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 1999: Kinematic characteristics of air flowing into and out of precipitating convection over the west Pacific warm pool: An airborne Doppler radar survey. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 125, 1165-1207.

Kingsmill, D. E., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 1999: Thermodynamic characteristics of air flowing into and out of precipitating convection over the west Pacific warm pool. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 125, 1209-1229.

Houze, R. A., Jr., S. S. Chen, D. E. Kingsmill, Y. Serra, and S. E. Yuter, 2000: Convection over the Pacific warm pool in relation to the atmospheric Kelvin-Rossby wave. J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 3058-3089.

Houze, R. A., Jr., 2004: Mesoscale convective systems. Rev. Geophys., 42, 10.1029/2004RG000150, 43 pp.