The Chuva Project: How Does Convection Vary across Brazil? (Articolo in rivista)

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  • The Chuva Project: How Does Convection Vary across Brazil? (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2014-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00084.1 (literal)
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  • Luiz A. T. Machado Maria A. F. Silva Dias, Carlos Morales Gilberto Fisch Daniel Vila, Rachel Albrecht Steven J. Goodman Alan J. P. Calheiros, Thiago Biscaro Christian Kummerow Julia Cohen David Fitzjarrald Ernani L. Nascimento Meiry S. Sakamoto Christopher Cunningham Jean-Pierre Chaboureau Walter A. Petersen David K. Adams Luca Baldini Carlos F. Angelis, Luiz F. Sapucci Paola Salio Henrique M. J. Barbosa Eduardo Landulfo Rodrigo A. F. Souza Richard J. Blakeslee Jeffrey Bailey Saulo Freitas, Wagner F. A. Lima Ali Tokay (2014)
    The Chuva Project: How Does Convection Vary across Brazil?
    in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society; American Meteorological Society, Boston (Stati Uniti d'America)
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  • Luiz A. T. Machado Maria A. F. Silva Dias, Carlos Morales Gilberto Fisch Daniel Vila, Rachel Albrecht Steven J. Goodman Alan J. P. Calheiros, Thiago Biscaro Christian Kummerow Julia Cohen David Fitzjarrald Ernani L. Nascimento Meiry S. Sakamoto Christopher Cunningham Jean-Pierre Chaboureau Walter A. Petersen David K. Adams Luca Baldini Carlos F. Angelis, Luiz F. Sapucci Paola Salio Henrique M. J. Barbosa Eduardo Landulfo Rodrigo A. F. Souza Richard J. Blakeslee Jeffrey Bailey Saulo Freitas, Wagner F. A. Lima Ali Tokay (literal)
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  • Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, Brazil Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Instituto de Aeronaútica e Espaço, Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia Aeroespacial, São Paulo, Brazil GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, Brazil Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Fundação Cearense de Meteorologia, Fortaleza, Brazil Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, Brazil Laboratoire d'Aérologie, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima, CNR, Rome, Italy Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, Brazil Universidade de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares, São Paulo, Brazil Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, Brazil University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland (literal)
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  • The Chuva Project: How Does Convection Vary across Brazil? (literal)
Abstract
  • CHUVA, meaning \"rain\" in Portuguese, is the acronym for the Cloud Processes of the Main Precipitation Systems in Brazil: A Contribution to Cloud-Resolving Modeling and to the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM). The CHUVA project has conducted five field campaigns; the sixth and last campaign will be held in Manaus in 2014. The primary scientific objective of CHUVA is to contribute to the understanding of cloud processes, which represent one of the least understood components of the weather and climate system. The five CHUVA campaigns were designed to investigate specific tropical weather regimes. The first two experiments, in Alcantara and Fortaleza in northeastern Brazil, focused on warm clouds. The third campaign, which was conducted in Belém, was dedicated to tropical squall lines that often form along the sea-breeze front. The fourth campaign was in the Vale do Paraiba of southeastern Brazil, which is a region with intense lightning activity. In addition to contributing to the understanding of cloud process evolution from storms to thunderstorms, this fourth campaign also provided a high-fidelity total lightning proxy dataset for the NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R program. The fifth campaign was carried out in Santa Maria, in southern Brazil, a region of intense hailstorms associated with frequent mesoscale convective complexes. This campaign employed a multimodel high-resolution ensemble experiment. The data collected from contrasting precipitation regimes in tropical continental regions allow the various cloud processes in diverse environments to be compared. Some examples of these previous experiments are presented to illustrate the variability of convection across the tropics. (literal)
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