The deepening of tropical convection by congestus preconditioning

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2601-2615

  Waite, Michael L ^a,b   Khouider, Boualem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving models; Convection; Convective clouds; Convective parameterization; Cumulus clouds; Tropics

Indexed keywords

CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION; CUMULUS CLOUD;

AIR ENTRAINMENT; EXPERIMENTS; MOISTURE; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CUMULUS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 77958541882     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3357.1     Document Type: Article

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