Responses of Cloud Distributions to the Large-Scale Dynamical Circulation: Water Budget-Related Dynamical Phase Space and Dynamical Regimes

Sun Wong1, Anthony D Del Genio2, Tao Wang3, Brian H Kahn1, Eric J Fetzer1 and Tristan S L'Ecuyer4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (3)Texas A & M University, College Station, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States