Cloud Systems, Hurricanes, and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)

This book is a tribute to a pioneer in tropical meteorology research, Dr. Joanne Simpson. It is a recollection of some of the high points of her career, from her fifty years of investigating hurricanes and clouds to her management of the crutial and highly successful TRMM project (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission), a joint mission between the NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

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The Research of Dr. Joanne Simpson: Fifty Years Investigating Hurricanes, Tropical Clouds, and Cloud Systems.- Joanne Simpson: An Ideal Model of Mentorship.- What We Have Learned about Field Programs.- From Hot Towers to TRMM: Joanne Simpson and Advances in Tropical Convection Research.- Some Views on "Hot Towers" after 50 Years of Tropical Field Programs and Two Years of TRMM Data.- Spaceborne Inferences of Cloud Microstructure and Precipitation Processes: Synthesis, Insights, and Implications.- Isotopic Variations and Internal Storm Dynamics in the Amazon Basin.- Cloud Models: Their Evolution and Future Challenges.- Goddard Cumulus Ensemble (GCE) Model: Application for Understanding Precipitation Processes.- Hot Towers and Hurricanes: Early Observations, Theories, and Models.- On the Transverse Circulation of the Hurricane.- Some Aspects of Midlevel Vortex Interaction in Tropical Cyclogenesis.- My View of the Early History of TRMM and Dr. Joanne Simpson's Key Role in Winning Mission Approval.- Dr. Joanne Simpson and the Beginning of the TRMM Project.- Working with Dr. JOanne Simpson while Managing the TRMM Project.- A Short HIstroy of the TRMM Precipitation Radar.- The TRMM Measurement Concept.- GATE and TRMM.- Performance Evaluation f Level-2 TRMM Rain Profile Algorithms by Intercomparison and Hypothesis Testing.- Status of TRMM Monthly Estimates of TRopical Precipitation.