An idealized cloud-resolving framework for the study of midlatitude diurnal convection over land

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1041-1057

  Schlemmer, Linda ^a   Hohenegger, Cathy ^b   Schmidli, Jürg ^a   Bretherton, Christopher S ^b   Schär, Christoph ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Diurnal effects; Land surface

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE; CLOUD-RESOLVING; DIURNAL CYCLE; DIURNAL EFFECTS; HUMIDITY PROFILE; LAND SURFACE; LOWER ATMOSPHERE; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MIDLATITUDES; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; RELAXATION METHODS; SOIL CONDITIONS; STRATIFIED ATMOSPHERE;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; SOILS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; HUMIDITY; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 79958749009     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3640.1     Document Type: Article

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