A new bulk shallow-cumulus model and implications for penetrative entrainment feedback on updraft buoyancy

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2174-2193

  Bretherton, Christopher S ^a   Park, Sungsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; COMMERCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FLUID MECHANICS; GRADIENT METHODS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE SCALES; TURBULENT FLOW;

BARBADOS OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL EXPERIMENT; BOUNDARY LAYER STRUCTURE; BULK MODEL; CAPPING INVERSION; CUMULUS CONVECTION; FREE TROPOSPHERE; HUMIDITY PROFILES; LAGRANGIAN; LINEAR GRADIENTS; MASS FLUXES; MIXED LAYERING; MOISTURE BALANCES; MOISTURE PROFILES; NEW MODEL; PENETRATIVE ENTRAINMENT; RADIATIVE COOLING; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STEADY STATES; TRANSIENT RESPONSES; VERTICAL VELOCITIES;

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BUOYANCY; CUMULUS; ENTRAINMENT; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MIXED LAYER; MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; UPDRAFT;

EID: 52049110328     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2242.1     Document Type: Article

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