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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I foremost would like to thank my advisor, Andrew Dessler, for his patience, encouragement, and guidance. I also would like to thank Drs. Robert Hudson, Sumant Nigam, Daniel Kirk-David<strong>of</strong>f, and Sung Won Lee for serving as committee members and for their suggestions for improving this thesis. Thanks also to Sun, Likun, and Emily for their supports and helpful discussions. Finally, I would like to thank my family and my wife, Ji-Yeon, for all the support and assurances that they have given me. ii
Page 2 and 3: the time evolution of local convect
Page 6 and 7: TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents
Page 8 and 9: LIST OF TABLES 1.1 Estimates of wat
Page 10 and 11: 2.6 Regional distribution of the po
Page 12 and 13: Chapter 1. Background 1.1 Motivatio
Page 14 and 15: only weak vertical motions, and thi
Page 16 and 17: above the convectively adjusted reg
Page 18 and 19: Figure 1.1 Convective impact in the
Page 20 and 21: a cooling of the mid- and high-lati
Page 22 and 23: passes the head of a tape recorder,
Page 24 and 25: that water vapor concentrations hav
Page 26 and 27: 1.4 Theories of stratospheric dehyd
Page 28 and 29: 1.4.2 Rapid dehydration An alternat
Page 30 and 31: surface will therefore have a vapor
Page 32 and 33: Chapter 2. Observations of convecti
Page 34 and 35: progression of tropical convective
Page 36 and 37: the Stages Condition 0 No convectio
Page 38 and 39: Temperature (K) Figure 2.2 Mean tem
Page 40 and 41: the duration of stage 1, 2, 4, and
Page 42 and 43: studying three wintertime convectio
Page 44 and 45: cooling rate (in potential temperat
Page 46 and 47: in overall, the sensitivity of the
Page 48 and 49: distribution of overshooting freque
Page 50 and 51: Figure 2.7 Distribution of cloud to
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convection, in both day and night a
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atmospheric waves [Potter and Holto
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3.3 Methodology Figure 3.1 shows a
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SUN (a) Overshooting top (Tb, Ht)
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temperatures, and solar zenith angl
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Figure 3.4 Scatter plots of oversho
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events are much more closely approx
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Figure 3. 6 A schematic of possible
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work by Dessler [2002], who used O
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eanalysis surface temperature and r
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with previous work [e.g., Sherwood
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4.1 Observation of convective cooli
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a significant difference occurs bet
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4.3 Overshooting deep convection an
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answer, and phenomena from various
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Boehm, M. T. and J. Verlinde, Strat
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Forster, P. M. de F. and K. P. Shin
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Between The 1987 Antarctic And 1989
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Newell, R. E., and S. Gould-Stewart
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Sherwood, S. C., A stratospheric "d
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Zhou X. L., M. A. Geller, and M. H.
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