Roles of large-scale forcing, thermodynamics, and cloud microphysics in tropical precipitation processes

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 371-384

  Shen, Xinyong ^a,b   Wang, Yi ^a   Zhang, Nan ^a   Li, Xiaofan ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving model simulation; Local change of hydrometeor concentration; Local change of water vapor; Precipitation processes; Water vapor convergence

Indexed keywords

CLOUD HYDROMETEORS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD-RESOLVING MODEL SIMULATION; CLOUD-RESOLVING MODEL SIMULATIONS; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; LOCAL CHANGE OF HYDROMETEOR CONCENTRATION; MODEL DOMAINS; PRECIPITATION PROCESS; REGIONAL ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION; UPWARD MOTION; VERTICAL VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); PHYSICS; RAIN; REGIONAL PLANNING; STRENGTHENING (METAL); TROPOSPHERE; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; STRATIFORM CLOUD; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 77954176137     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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