Articles | Volume 18, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17687-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17687-2018
Research article
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13 Dec 2018
Research article |  | 13 Dec 2018

A 17 year climatology of the macrophysical properties of convection in Darwin

Robert C. Jackson, Scott M. Collis, Valentin Louf, Alain Protat, and Leon Majewski

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This paper looks at a 17 year database of echo top heights of thunderstorms in Darwin retrieved by CPOL. We find that the echo top heights are generally bimodal, corresponding to cumulus congestus and deep convection, and show a greater bimodality during an inactive MJO. Furthermore, we find that convective cell areas are larger in break conditions compared to monsoon conditions, but only during MJO-inactive conditions.
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