Turbulence effects on warm-rain autoconversion in precipitating shallow convection

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 652, 2010, Pages 1753-1762

  Seifert, Axel ^a   Nuijens, Louise ^b   Stevens, Bjorn ^b,c  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud physics; Coalescence; Cumulus clouds; LES; Rain formation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCONVERSION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD PHYSICS; COLLISION RATE; CUMULUS CLOUD; DISSIPATION RATES; LES; PARAMETRIZATIONS; SHALLOW CONVECTION; SPEED-UPS; TRADE-WIND CUMULUS; TURBULENCE EFFECT; TURBULENT DISSIPATION RATES;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; COALESCENCE; DROP FORMATION; RAIN; TURBULENCE;

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINDROP; RAINFALL; TRADE WIND; TURBULENCE;

EID: 77958604982     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.684     Document Type: Article

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