On how hot towers fuel the hadley cell: An observational and modeling study of line-organized convection in the equatorial trough from TOGA COARE

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2730-2746

  Fierro, Alexandre O ^a   Simpson, Joanne ^b   Lemone, Margaret A ^c   Straka, Jerry M ^d   Smull, Bradley F ^e  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR PARCELS; AIRBORNE RADARS; BELOW-CLOUD; BOUNDARY LAYER AIR; BULK MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD MODELS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE RESPONSE EXPERIMENTS; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DOPPLER RADAR OBSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FREEZING LEVELS; HADLEY CELLS; HOT TOWERS; LATENT HEAT RELEASE; MODEL OUTPUTS; MODEL SIMULATION; MODELING STUDIES; NEAR-SURFACE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OBSERVED SYSTEMS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; SQUALL LINES; TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL OCEAN;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; FREEZING; LATENT HEAT; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; SHIPS; STORMS; TOWERS; TROPOSPHERE;

TRAJECTORIES;

AIRFLOW; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; HADLEY CELL; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 73549094257     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3017.1     Document Type: Article

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