Abstract
Abstract Soundings taken from the tropical western Pacific warm pool region during TOGA COARE reveal the common occurrence of temperature and moisture perturbations near the 0°C level. The perturbations frequently are characterized by shallow layers of increased stability (or occasionally temperature inversions) and reversals or inflections in the vertical profile of specific humidity. Similar temperature and moisture inversions have been observed elsewhere in the Tropics and midlatitudes but have not received much attention. Isothermal layers are known to exist just below the melting level in stratiform rain regions; however, not all stable layers observed over the warm pool are confined to precipitation systems. The perturbation in the specific humidity profile accounts for the often-observed double-peak structure in the apparent moisture sink Q2 in tie Tropics. Stratification of the data based on relative humidity criteria indicates that the stable layers near the 0°C level generally fall into two main...
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