Investigation of the features of long-term global atmospheric circulation via satellite radiothermovision

A previously developed approach of satellite radiothermovision was applied to the analysis of meridional advection of atmospheric latent heat at climatically significant scales (13 years of continuous passive microwave satellite observations). The results are in good agreement with basic understanding of atmospheric latent heat circulation, though some revealed particularities remain to be the subject to further detailed investigation. Further prospects to application of the developed approach to investigation of atmospheric rivers and global tropical cyclogenesis in the context of multiyear climate variations are briefly discussed. An important aspect of the research is that the calculation approach is independent of any estimates from circulation models.