Modeling entrainment and finescale mixing in cumulus clouds

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 2697-2712

  Krueger, Steven K ^a   Su, Chwen Wei ^a   Mcmurtry, Patrick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CUMULUS CLOUDS; EXPLICIT MIXING PARCEL MODEL; FINESCALE MIXING; MODELING ENTRAINMENT;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD; CUMULUS; ENTRAINMENT;

USA, HAWAII;

EID: 0031395057     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<2697:MEAFMI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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