Tropical deep convection and tropical tropopause - Academia Sinica
Tropical deep convection and tropical tropopause - Academia Sinica
Tropical deep convection and tropical tropopause - Academia Sinica
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One possible explanation<br />
• <strong>Tropical</strong> <strong>deep</strong> <strong>convection</strong>s may have<br />
adequate energy to reach ~17 km, but<br />
the LNB is often at ~ 14 km due to<br />
humidity structure.<br />
• The LNB cloud tops are more stable <strong>and</strong><br />
are the ones most often observed. On the<br />
other h<strong>and</strong>, the clouds in the TTL (14-17<br />
km) tend to be more disorganized <strong>and</strong><br />
probably thinner, hence are not often<br />
observed.<br />
• Thus we observe <strong>tropical</strong> <strong>deep</strong> convective<br />
clouds often reaching ~ 14 km but the<br />
actual <strong>tropopause</strong> height is at ~ 17 km.
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