Dependence of the precipitation intensity in mesoscale convective systems to temperature lapse rate

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 96, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 273-285

  Takemi, Tetsuya ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cloud dynamics; Cumulus convection; Precipitating cloud systems; Static stability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE REGIONS; CLOUD DYNAMICS; COLD POOL; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CUMULUS CONVECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FUTURE CLIMATE; LAPSE RATE; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MODEL CONFIGURATION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PRECIPITATING CLOUDS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SQUALL LINES; STATIC STABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; GLOBAL WARMING; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC LAPSE RATE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD COVER; COLD POOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CUMULUS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SQUALL LINE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 77952320973     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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