Precipitation-buoyancy relationships and dependence on free-tropospheric moisture: reverse-engineering and forward estimates of deep-inflow influence functions
J David Neelin1, Fiaz Ahmed2, Kathleen Shiro3, Scott E Giangrande4, Yi-Hung Kuo1, Ramon Padulles5, Joe J Turk6, Manuel de la Torre Juarez7 and Chi O Ao8, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Angeles, United States, (4)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (8)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
