A new parameterization for shallow cumulus convection and its application to marine subtropical cloud-topped boundary layers. Part I: Description and 1D results

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 864-882

  Bretherton, Christopher S ^a   McCaa, James R ^a   Grenier, Hervé ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENCE;

MASS FLUX; PARAMETERIZATION;

HEAT CONVECTION;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; CUMULUS; ENTRAINMENT; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; TURBULENCE;

EID: 7744229398     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<0864:ANPFSC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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