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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<strong>Tropical</strong> <strong>tropopause</strong> height <strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>deep</strong> convective clouds<br />
• However, in real tropics, the <strong>tropopause</strong> is<br />
higher. It is usually taken to be ~ 17 km.<br />
• <strong>Tropical</strong> <strong>tropopause</strong> is thought to be<br />
approximately maintained by convectiveradiative<br />
equilibrium<br />
• Yet few of <strong>tropical</strong> “hot towers” are<br />
observed to be taller than 14 km<br />
(Highwood <strong>and</strong> Hoskins, 1998)<br />
• So how can the <strong>tropical</strong> <strong>tropopause</strong> be<br />
maintained at 17 km level?<br />
• Also, would H2O go thru the <strong>tropopause</strong>?
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