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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 27, Issue 16, Pages 2549-2552Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011524
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We use clear sky heating rates to show that convective outflow in the tropics decreases rapidly with height between the 350 K and 360 K potential temperature surfaces (or between roughly 13 and 15 km). There is also a rapid fall-off in the pseudoequivalent potential temperature probability distribution of near surface air parcels between 350 K and 360 K. This suggests that the vertical variation of convective outflow in the upper tropical troposphere is to a large degree determined by the distribution of sub cloud layer entropy.
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