To understand rainfall dynamics, the characterization of convective and stratiform dominance needs a careful investigation. However, it remains a grey area to date. In this paper, the authors have attempted to differentiate between convective and stratiform events based on vertical profiles of a few upper-air meteorological elements, namely, cloud liquid water (CLW), precipitation water (PW), and latent heat (LH). The parameters have been obtained from the data product 2A12 of the Tropical Microwave Imager (TMI) onboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring satellite (TRMM). The paper presents the demarcation technique between convective and stratiform dominance on surface rainfall without ambiguity.

为了了解降雨动态，对流和层状优势的特征需要仔细研究。但是，到目前为止，它仍然是灰色区域。在本文中，作者试图根据一些高空气象要素的垂直剖面来区分对流和层状事件，这些要素是云液态水（CLW），降水水（PW）和潜热（LH）。参数是从热带雨量测量卫星（TRMM）上的热带微波成像仪（TMI）的数据产品2A12获得的。本文提出了对流和层状优势对地表降雨的明确划分技术。