Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) in mixed phase cloud conditions

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 624 PART A, 2007, Pages 561-569

  Früh, Barbara ^a,b   Wirth, V ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Freezing; Ice phase; Liquid fraction; Mixed phase parcel; Precipitation efficiency; Single phase parcel

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUOYANCY; FREEZING; ICE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGY; ISOBARIC FREEZING; LIQUID FRACTION; MIXED PHASE CLOUD; PARCEL TEMPERATURE;

CLOUDS;

BUOYANCY; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; FREEZING; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE INVERSION;

EID: 34250000879     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.39     Document Type: Article

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