Heat, moisture, and momentum budgets of isolated deep midlatitude and tropical convective clouds as diagnosed from three-dimensional model output. Part II: Sensitivity to ice phase and small changes in ambient shear strength and low-level moisture supply

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 3520-3543

  Schlesinger, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDENSATION; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; SPECIFIC HEAT OF GASES; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; ICE PHASE; MOMENTUM BUDGETS; TROPICAL CUMULONIMBUS; VERTICAL EDDY FLUXES;

CLOUDS;

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; HEAT TRANSFER; MOISTURE; MOMENTUM;

OKLAHOMA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033569001     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<3520:HMAMBO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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