Abstract
Tropical scale interactions involving cumulus clouds are examined using a broader interpretation of the CISK concept permitting stable as well as unstable feedbacks between clouds and larger-scale flows. Attention is focussed on 1) the role of tropical cumuli in maintaining the trade winds and 2) the “hot tower hypothesis” concerning the function of giant cumulonimbus in the equatorial trough as originally postulated in 1958 and as confirmed twenty years later.
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Simpson, J. (1983). Cumulus Role in Tropical Circulations. In: Lilly, D.K., Gal-Chen, T. (eds) Mesoscale Meteorology — Theories, Observations and Models. NATO ASI Series, vol 114. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2241-4_21
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