A buoyancy-based mixing-length proposal for cloudy boundary layers

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130 C, Issue 604, 2004, Pages 3385-3404

  Sanchez E ^a,b   Cuxart, J ^a  

^a Instituto Nac de Meteorologia ^*  (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Moist turbulence parametrization; Shallow cumulus; Stratocumulus

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDENSATION; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; MIXING; TURBULENCE;

LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION; MOIST PROCESSES; NON-PRECIPITATING PROCESSES; PARTIAL CLOUDINESS CONDITIONS;

CLOUDS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; BUOYANCY; CLOUD; CUMULUS; MIXING; PARAMETERIZATION; STRATOCUMULUS;

EID: 13844269069     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.121     Document Type: Article

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