There is a lot of talk surrounding tropical systems and how rainfall is even more severe in mountainous terrain. This is because of a phenomenon called orographic lift. Orographic lift occurs when ...

(a) Precipitation time series from GPM satellite product (GPM) and sensitivity experiments; (b)–(d) probability density distribution functions of daily total precipitation for GPM (green), CTRL ...

Jackson, R., J. R. French, D. C. Leon, D. M. Plummer, S. Lasher-Trapp, A. M. Blyth, and A. Korolev, 2018: Observations of the microphysical evolution of convective ...

Long-term environmental monitoring results are presented documenting the seasonality experienced by the lowland tropical forest on Barro Colorado Island, Panam . A dry season has developed during each ...