A method to determine the amounts of cloud-top radiative and evaporative cooling in a stratocumulus-topped boundary layer

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 123, Issue 544, 1997, Pages 2187-2213

  Shao, Qingqiu ^a   Randall, David A ^b   Moeng, Chin Hoh ^c   Dickinson, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud physics; Entrainment; Large eddy simulations; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD PHYSICS; ENTRAINMENT; MARINE ATMOSPHER; STRATOCUMULUS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT ENTRAINMENT;

EID: 0031404313     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.49712354403     Document Type: Article

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