Entrainment and detrainment in numerically simulated cumulus congestus clouds. Part II: Cloud budgets

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 3433-3439

  Carpenter Jr , Richard L ^a   Droegemeier, Kelvin K ^a   Blyth, Alan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR ENTRAINMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE;

CUMULUS CONGESTUS CLOUDS; MASS FLUX;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CUMULUS; ENTRAINMENT; MODEL;

EID: 0033489844     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<3433:EADINS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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