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Tropical deep convection and tropical tropopause - Academia Sinica

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<strong>Tropical</strong> <strong>deep</strong> convective clouds<br />

• Deep convective clouds play important<br />

roles in many atmospheric processes<br />

• <strong>Tropical</strong> <strong>deep</strong> <strong>convection</strong> plays pivotal role<br />

in the transport of momentum <strong>and</strong> many<br />

major trace chemicals.<br />

• This talk concerns the <strong>tropical</strong> <strong>deep</strong><br />

<strong>convection</strong>s that penetrate through the<br />

<strong>tropopause</strong> <strong>and</strong> enter the stratosphere.<br />

• But we will use midlatitude cases to<br />

illustrate the penetrative <strong>convection</strong> first.

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