Transient environmental sensitivities of explicitly simulated tropical convection

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 923-940

  Tulich, Stefan N ^a   Mapes, Brian E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CONVECTIVE INHIBITION; DEEP CONVECTION; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DOMAIN SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITIES; GLOBAL MODELS; HIGH INTENSITY; MODEL RESPONSE; NON-LOCAL PARTS; NONLOCAL; NONLOCAL RESPONSE; PERTURBED LEVELS; STATISTICAL ROBUSTNESS; TROPICAL CONVECTION; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS; WEAK FORCING;

CLOUDS; MOISTURE; NATURAL CONVECTION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DAMPING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 77953339179     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3277.1     Document Type: Article

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