Outline

1. Introduction: Background and motivation

2. Reanalysis Estimates: water vapor transports, rainfall, and evaporation

3. Satellite Estimates: Evaporation, Rainfall, and Precipitable Water

4. Model Simulations: water vapor transports, evaporation and precipitation from the the CCM3

5. Conclusions: click here [back to home][introduction][reanalysis][satellite][ccm3][conclusions] [to next page (background)] this poster can be found at  http://paos.colorado.edu/~fasullo/research/ams.00.a/