Coupling of convective momentum transport with convective heating in global climate simulations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1334-1349

  Wu, Xiaoqing ^a   Deng, Lipping ^a   Song, Xiaoliang ^a   Zhang, Guang Jun ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEATING; WIND;

CONVECTIVE HEATING; CONVECTIVE MOMENTUM TRANSPORT (CMT); EQUATORWARD FLOW; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEATING; WIND;

CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEAT BUDGET; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION;

EID: 34247621828     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3894.1     Document Type: Article

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