A new heuristic lagrangian marine boundary layer cloud model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 3002-3024

  Park, Sungsu ^a,b   Leovy, Conway B ^a   Rozendaal, Margaret A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONDENSATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND EFFECTS;

LIFTING CONDENSATION LEVEL (LCL); MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER (MBL); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); WIND SPEED;

CLOUDS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; HUMIDITY; MARINE ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 12144271629     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-3344.1     Document Type: Article

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