Trimodal cloudiness and tropical stable layers in simulations of radiative convective equilibrium

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Posselt, D J ^a   van den Heever, S C ^b   Stephens, G L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; FREEZING; NUMERICAL METHODS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; TROPICS;

ACTIVE PERIODS; AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; CLOUD STRUCTURES; FREEZING LEVELS; LARGE SCALES; LATENT HEAT RELEASE; LONG WAVES; MELTING PROCESSES; NUMERICAL MODELLING; RADIATIVE COOLING; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; SIMULATION RESULTS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENTS; TROPICAL OCEANS; TROPICAL WESTERN PACIFIC (TWP); WIND INVERSION;

FARM BUILDINGS;

CLOUD COVER; LATENT HEAT FLUX; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; TRADE WIND;

EID: 48249151841     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL033029     Document Type: Article

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