Analytical expressions for entrainment and detrainment in cumulus convection

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 650, 2010, Pages 1216-1227

  de Rooy, Wim C ^a   Pier Siebesma, A ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cloud ensemble; Large eddy simulation; Lateral mixing; Mass flux

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BUDGET EQUATION; CLOUD FRACTION; CONSTANT MASS; CUMULUS CONVECTION; LATERAL MIXING; MASS BUDGET; MASS FLUX; MIXING COEFFICIENT; PARAMETRIZATIONS; PHYSICAL NATURE; PHYSICAL PICTURES; SHALLOW CONVECTION; SHALLOW CUMULUS CLOUDS; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; TURBULENT MIXING; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BUDGET CONTROL; CLOUDS; HEAT FLUX; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

MIXING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CUMULUS; ENTRAINMENT; HUMIDITY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; TURBULENT MIXING; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

EID: 77956209586     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.640     Document Type: Article

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