Numerical simulations of radiative cooling beneath the anvils of supercell thunderstorms

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3024-3047

  Frame, Jeffrey ^a   Markowski, Paul ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED REGIONAL PREDICTION SYSTEMS; AIR TEMPERATURE; DOWN-WELLING; EASTWARD PROPAGATION; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; HODOGRAPHS; MODEL SURFACE; NEAR-SURFACE LAYERS; NEAR-SURFACE WINDS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PARAMETERIZED; RADIATIVE COOLING; RADIATIVE HEATING; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SIMULATED STORMS; SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS; SURFACE COOLING; SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE RADIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; VERTICAL MIXING; WIND PROFILES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; HEATING; STABILIZATION; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; THUNDERSTORMS;

TOOLS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; ENERGY BUDGET; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SUPERCELL; SURFACE ENERGY; SURFACE FLUX; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 77958462564     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3177.1     Document Type: Article

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