The mesoscale dynamics of thin tropical tropopause cirrus

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2859-2873

  Durran, Dale R ^a   Dinh, Tra ^a   Ammerman, Marie ^b   Ackerman, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b IBERDROLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; HEAT SOURCES; HORIZONTAL FLOWS; ICE CRYSTALS; LINEAR SOLUTION; LINEAR THEORY; MESOSCALE; NONLINEAR NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RADIATIVE HEATING; SMALL CRYSTALS; TEMPERATURE PERTURBATIONS; THERMAL FORCING; THIN CIRRUS; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS; VELOCITY FIELD; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HEATING; INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CLOUDS;

ADVECTION; CIRRUS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVE; HEAT SOURCE; HEATING; ICE CRYSTAL; INFRARED RADIATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOPAUSE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 73649115664     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3046.1     Document Type: Article

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