Virtual field campaigns on deep tropical convection in climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 244-257

  Mapes, Brian E ^a   Bacmeister, Julio ^b   Khairoutdinov, Marat ^c   Hannay, Cecile ^d   Zhao, Ming ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE MODELS; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUD FORCING; CLOUD LAYERS; CLOUD MODELS; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODELS; CONVECTIVE HEATING; DATA SAMPLES; DEEP TROPICAL CONVECTIONS; DISTINCTIVE FEATURES; ENTRAINMENT RATES; FIELD CAMPAIGNS; GLOBAL MODELING; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; LONG WAVES; RAIN EVENTS; RAIN RATES; SHARP FEATURES; SOURCE LEVELS; THIN BOUNDARY LAYERS; THREE MODELS; TIME-SCALES; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL OCEANS; TROPOSPHERIC HUMIDITIES; VERTICAL COHERENCES; VERTICAL DIPOLES; VIRTUAL FIELDS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; HEATING; MOISTURE; NASA; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPOSPHERE;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; ENTRAINMENT; HEATING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 64049093073     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2203.1     Document Type: Article

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