OBSERVATION, THEORY AND MODELING OF ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY<br> Selected Papers of Nanjing Institute of Meteorology Alumni in Commemoration of Professor Jijia Zhang

OBSERVATION, THEORY AND MODELING OF ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY
Selected Papers of Nanjing Institute of Meteorology Alumni in Commemoration of Professor Jijia Zhang

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	i
Part I. Dynamics of Atmospheric Variability
LOCAL INSTABILITY DYNAMICS OF STORM TRACKS MING CAI	3
UNDERSTANDING THE COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICS OF ENSO FEI-FEI JIN	39
MONTHLY AND SEASONAL VARIABILITY OF THE LAND-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM YONG-QIANG LIU	73
ADAPTATION OF THE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION TO THERMAL FORCING OVER THE TIBETAN PLATEAU GUOXIONG WU, YIMIN LIU, JIANGYU MAO, XIN LIU and WEIPING LI	92
TROPOPAUSE VARIATIONS IN THE EQUATORIAL REGION XUELONG ZHOU	115
STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE SEA ICE AND ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION DURING WINTERTIME ZHI-FANG FANG	131
A PV STUDY OF AN EXPLOSIVE EXTRATROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS EVENT FANYOU KONG	142
Part II. Climate Modeling and Numerical Weather Prediction
CLOUD-CLIMATE FEEDBACK: HOW MUCH DO WE KNOW? MINGHUA ZHANG	161
PARAMETERIZATION OF CONVECTION IN GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS GUANG JUN ZHANG	184
CLOUD MODELING IN THE TROPICAL DEEP CONVECTIVE REGIME XIAOFAN LI	206
TURBULENCE-MICROPHYSICS INTERACTION IN STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS: PROCESS AND PARAMETERIZATION SHOUPING WANG and QING WANG	224
SOME CONCEPTS AND METHODS OF ATMOSPHERIC DATA ASSIMILATION—A TUTORIAL NOTE XIAOLEI ZOU	234
PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS AND EVALUATIONS BASED ON A GLOBAL ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEM YUEJIAN ZHU	277
MODELING LAND SURFACE PROCESSES IN SHORT-TERM WEATHER AND CLIMATE STUDIES ZONG-LIANG YANG	288
AIR-SEA INTERACTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH MESOSCALE WEATHER SYSTEMS LIAN XIE	314
SIMULATION OF SHORT-TERM VARIABILITY OF THE ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON USING THE NCEP REGIONAL ETA MODEL YIMIN JI	330
EFFECT OF FORCING DATA ERRORS ON CALIBRATION AND UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES OF THE CHASM MODEL: A MULTI-DATASET STUDY YOULONG XIA, PAUL L. STOFFA, CHARLES JACKSON and MRINAL K. SEN	340
Part III. Radiative Transfer and Remote Sensing
RADIATIVE TRANSFER IN THE MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE AND PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES XUN ZHU	359
SATELLITE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION GUOSHENG LIU	397
POLARIMETRIC RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS: AN OVERVIEW QUANHUA LIU	421
ON THE SOLAR RADIATION BUDGET AND THE CLOUD ABSORPTION ANOMALY DEBATE ZHANQING LI	437
DETECTING SOLAR ULTRAVIOLET IMPACT ON STRATOSPHERIC OZONE SHUNTAI ZHOU	457
APPLICATIONS OF TRMM SCIENTIFIC DATA RUNHUA YANG and HUALAN RUI	473
PRECIPITATION AND LATENT HEATING ESTIMATION FROM PASSIVE MICROWAVE SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS: A REVIEW SONG YANG	484
AEROSOLS AND CLIMATE: A PERSPECTIVE OVER EAST ASIA ZHANQING LI	501
APPLICATIONS OF SATELLITE MICROWAVE DATA FOR HURRICANE PREDICTION TONG ZHU and FUZHONG WENG	526
Part IV Mathematical Method
THE RG-FACTORIZATION IN BLOCK-STRUCTURED MARKOV RENEWAL PROCESSES QUAN-LIN LI and YIQIANG Q. ZHAO	545
LARGE SAMPLE PROPERTY OF THE LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE FOR FRACTIONAL ARIMA MODELS SHU AN, PETER BLOOMFIELD and SASTRY G. PANTULA	569
ERROR ANALYSIS FOR SCRAMBLED QUASI-MONTE CARLO QUADRATURE RONG-XIAN YUE	582
WEAKLY NONLINEAR EVOLUTION OF SMALL DISTURBANCES IN THE PRESENCE OF LINEAR INSTABILITY JUN YU	589
REDUCTION OF EDGE EFFECTS IN THE CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM BY THE EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION METHOD XUN ZHU	604
BACK MATTER	613
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