Sensitivity of a large ensemble of tropical convective systems to changes in the thermodynamic and dynamic forcings

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1773-1794

  Eitzen, Zachary A ^a,b   Xu, Kuan Man ^b  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; COOLING; DYNAMIC MODELS; MODAL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); ROOM AND PILLAR MINING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; THERMODYNAMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

(PL) PROPERTIES; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); CLOUD HEIGHTS; CLOUD ICE; CLOUD PROPERTIES; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL (CRM); CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES); CONTROL SET; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS (CS); DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DYNAMIC FORCING; FEEDBACK EFFECTS; FORCINGS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; LONG WAVES; MEAN VALUE (MV); SCALE MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES (SSTS); TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ADVECTION; ALBEDO; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SKEWNESS; THERMODYNAMICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 45849089206     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2446.1     Document Type: Article

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