This product plots the positions of air parcels in the ACCLIP region at the given altitude that have been influenced by convection in the past 7 days. It also plots the locations of the convection and trajectories between the convection and the influenced air parcels.
Cloud top altitudes are estimated using global TRMM/GPM rainfall, global brightness temperatures, GFS temperature profiles, and GFS tropopause temperatures and pressures.
The 4 sets of convectively-influenced trajectories launched two days prior to the current day are available by 3 AM Pacific time each morning.
Please contact us if you have any question regarding the plots and dataset.
POC: Rei Ueyama: rei.ueyama@nasa.gov (NASA ARC)
*UPDATED: Jun 23, 2022