Water's two height scales: The moist adiabat and the radiative troposphere

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 127, Issue 577, 2001, Pages 2353-2366

  Mapes, B E ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gross moist stability; Radiative convective equilibrium; Tropical atmosphere; Vertical structure

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GRAVITY WAVES; HEAT FLUX; INFRARED RADIATION; SUBSIDENCE; TROPICS;

LATENT HEATING; MOIST ADIABAT;

TROPOSPHERE;

ADIABATIC LAPSE RATE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0035473116     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.57707     Document Type: Article

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