Rain reevaporation, boundary layer-convection interactions, and pacific rainfall patterns in an AGCM

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3383-3403

  Bacmeister, Julio T ^a,b   Suarez, Max J ^b   Robertson, Franklin R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; EVAPORATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; DIFFUSIVE CUMULUS MOMENTUM TRANSPORT (DCMT); INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ);

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; EVAPORATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MOTION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MOISTURE; RAINFALL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 33646440456     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3791.1     Document Type: Article

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