A simple conceptual model of lower troposphere stability and marine stratus and stratocumulus cloud fraction

86th AMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  He, Yanping ^a   Dickinson, Robert ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; BOX MODELS; CLOUD COVER; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DRY STATIC ENERGY; DYNAMICAL EQUILIBRIUM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LARGE-SCALE MODELS; LATENT HEAT RELEASE; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; LOW CLOUD COVER; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS; OCEAN SURFACES; OFFLINE; PHYSICAL PICTURES; RADIATIVE COOLING; REANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATIFORM CLOUDS; STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; FLOWCHARTING; LATENT HEAT; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; TROPOSPHERE;

STABILITY;

EID: 77949286400     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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