Assessment of several moist adiabatic processes associated with convective energy calculation

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 941-950

  Li, Yaodong ^a,b   Gao, Shouting ^a   Liu, Jianwen ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b Beijing Aviation Meteorological Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Downdraft convective available potential energy; Liquid water; Modified convective available potential energy; Modified downdraft convective available potential energy; Moist adiabatic processes; Reversible moist adiabatic process

Indexed keywords

EID: 10944250951     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02915596     Document Type: Article

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