Definition of a moist entropy potential temperature: Application to FIRE-I data flights

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 656, 2011, Pages 768-791

  Marquet, Pascal ^a  

^a MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

CTEI; Energetics; Entropy; Stratocumulus; Thermodynamic diagrams

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; CLEAR AIR; CLOUD-TOP ENTRAINMENT INSTABILITIES; CONDENSED WATER; CTEI; DATA SETS; DRY AIR; ENERGETICS; MARINE STRATOCUMULUS; MIXING PROCESS; MOIST AIR; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SPECIFIC ENTROPY; STRATOCUMULUS; THERMODYNAMIC DIAGRAMS; TOTAL WATER CONTENT; WATER VAPOUR;

AIR ENTRAINMENT; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MIXING; WATER CONTENT;

ENTROPY;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLEAR SKY; CLOUD COVER; DATA SET; ENERGETICS; ENTRAINMENT; ENTROPY; MIXING RATIO; MOISTURE TRANSFER; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; STRATOCUMULUS; THERMODYNAMICS; TURBULENT FLOW; WATER CONTENT; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 79955474785     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.787     Document Type: Article

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