Linear response functions of a cumulus ensemble to temperature and moisture perturbations and implications for the dynamics of convectively coupled waves

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 941-962

  Kuang, Zhiming ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD SYSTEM-RESOLVING MODELS; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; CONVECTIVE HEATING; COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE RESPONSE EXPERIMENTS; COUPLED WAVES; EQUILIBRIUM DOMAIN; INSTABILITY MECHANISMS; LINEAR RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MATRIX INVERSIONS; MOISTURE PROFILES; MOISTURE VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; SIMPLE MODEL; SPONTANEOUS DEVELOPMENT; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TIME INVARIANTS; TROPICAL OCEAN; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL ADVECTION; VERTICAL VELOCITY PROFILES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HEATING; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPOSPHERE;

MOISTURE CONTROL;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; COUPLING; CUMULUS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; LINEARITY; MATRIX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PERTURBATION; TOGA-COARE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 77953350963     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3260.1     Document Type: Article

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