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Tropical deep convection and tropical tropopause - Academia Sinica

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Wind shear environment in midlatitudes <strong>and</strong><br />

tropics<br />

• In the tropics, wind shears are<br />

usually weaker<br />

• Can <strong>deep</strong> <strong>convection</strong> penetrate the<br />

<strong>tropopause</strong> in a weak shear<br />

environment?<br />

• So we performed a model study on<br />

the cloud top behavior of a <strong>deep</strong><br />

convective storm in the absence of<br />

wind shear.

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