The moisture mode in the quasi-equilibrium tropical circulation model. Part I: Analysis based on the weak temperature gradient approximation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1507-1523

  Sugiyama, Masahiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC COOLING; CIRCULATION MODELS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; DISPERSION RELATIONSHIP; DYNAMICAL BALANCE; GROWTH RATE EQUATIONS; LEADING ORDERS; LIMITING PROCESS; MOIST STATIC ENERGY; NONDIMENSIONAL; PARAMETER REGIMES; PERTURBATION EXPANSIONS; PLANETARY SCALE; QUASI-EQUILIBRIUM; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; STABLE FIXED POINTS; TIME-SCALES; TYPICAL VALUES; UNSTABLE SOLUTIONS; WAVE NUMBERS; WEAK TEMPERATURE GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS; WIND INDUCED SURFACE HEAT EXCHANGE;

PHASE DIAGRAMS; THERMAL GRADIENTS; TROPICS;

MOISTURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; COOLING; EVAPORATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 67650543176     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2690.1     Document Type: Article

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