Cloud resolving modeling of tropical circulations driven by large-scale SST gradients

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 2022-2039

  Grabowski, W W ^a   Yano, J I ^a   Moncrieff, M W ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; GRAVITY WAVES; HEAT CONVECTION; THERMAL GRADIENTS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0034233811     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<2022:crmotc>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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