Moisture-convection feedback in the tropics

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130 C, Issue 604, 2004, Pages 3081-3104

  Grabowski, W W ^a   Moncrieff, M W ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective clouds; Humidity; Parametrization; Tropical dynamics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; HEAT CONVECTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; MOISTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

DEEP CONVECTION; LARGE SCALE DYNAMICS; PARAMETRIZATION; TIME-SCALE;

TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; HUMIDITY; MOISTURE; PARAMETERIZATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 3042709640     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.135     Document Type: Article

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