Precipitation and cloud statistics in the deep tropical convective regime

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Shen, Xinyong ^a,c   Wang, Yi ^a   Zhang, Nan ^a,c   Li, Xiaofan ^b  

^a Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology   (China)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; STATISTICS; TROPICS; WATER VAPOR;

CLOUD STATISTICS; CLOUD-RESOLVING MODEL SIMULATIONS; COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE RESPONSE EXPERIMENTS; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MODEL DOMAINS; PRECIPITATION PROCESS; RAIN RATES; SCALE DEPENDENCE; SCALE PRECIPITATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TOTAL RAINFALL; TROPICAL OCEAN-GLOBAL ATMOSPHERES; VERTICAL VELOCITY; WATER CLOUDS; ZONAL WIND;

RAIN;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CONVERGENCE; EVAPORATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL REGION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER VAPOR; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 78650579686     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014481     Document Type: Article

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