Self-aggregation and large-scale control of tropical deep convection: A modeling study

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1797-1816

  Su, Hui ^a,b   Bretherton, Christopher S ^a   Chen, Shuyi S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH MESOSCALE MODEL; TROPICAL DEEP CONVECTION; WIND INDUCED SURFACE HEAT EXCHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AGGREGATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0034210360     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<1797:SAALSC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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