Nature versus nurture in shallow convection

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1655-1666

  Romps, David M ^a   Kuang, Zhiming ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Convective clouds; Convective parameterization; Entrainment; Mass fluxes transport; Model evaluation performance; Numerical analysis modeling; Stochastic models

Indexed keywords

CLOUD BASE; CLOUD PROPERTIES; CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION; MASS FLUX MODEL; POISSON PROCESS; SHALLOW CONVECTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; STOCHASTIC ENTRAINMENT;

CLOUDS; PARAMETERIZATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; ENTRAINMENT; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MASS TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 77955547094     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3307.1     Document Type: Article

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