Entrainment in cumulus clouds: What resolution is cloud-resolving?

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3978-3988

  Craig, George C ^a   Dörnbrack, Andreas ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; CLOUD-RESOLVING; CUMULUS CLOUDS; LENGTH-SCALE; MIXING PROCESS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PRESSURE PERTURBATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BUOYANCY; CLOUDS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

BUOYS;

CUMULUS; ENTRAINMENT; MIXING; PERTURBATION; SIMULATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRATIFICATION;

EID: 65249139078     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2613.1     Document Type: Article

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