The relative humidity in an isentropic advection-condensation model: Limited poleward influence and properties of subtropical minima

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3079-3093

  O'Gorman, Paul A ^a   Lamquin, Nicolas ^b,c   Schneider, Tapio ^b   Singh, Martin S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ACRI ST   (France)

Author keywords

Transport; Turbulence; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

FREE TROPOSPHERE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HUMIDITY DISTRIBUTION; IDEALIZED MODELS; INFLECTION POINTS; ISENTROPIC; ISENTROPIC SURFACES; MERIDIONAL GRADIENTS; PROPAGATION OF ERROR; REANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; TRANSPORT; WATER VAPOR CONCENTRATION;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDENSATION; MOISTURE; TROPICS; TURBULENCE; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BAROTROPIC MOTION; CONDENSATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MOISTURE TRANSFER; PARAMETERIZATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATURATION; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 80052539698     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-067.1     Document Type: Article

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