Changes in the interaction between tropical convection, radiation, and the large-scale circulation in a warming environment

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 557-571

  Posselt, Derek J ^a   Van Den Heever, Susan ^b   Stephens, Graeme ^b   Igel, Matthew R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Feedback; Humidity; Radiative convective equilibrium; Sea surface temperature; Stratiform clouds; Tropics

Indexed keywords

CLEAR AIR; COMPLEX INTERACTION; CONVECTIVE INTENSITY; CRITICAL VALUE; DEEP CONVECTION; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MONOTONIC DEPENDENCE; NON-MONOTONIC FUNCTION; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION RATES; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEA SURFACES; STABLE LAYER; STATIC STABILITY; STRATIFORM CLOUDS; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION; SURFACE WARMING; THROUGH THE LENS; TROPICAL CLIMATES; TROPICAL CONVECTION; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; EXPERIMENTS; FEEDBACK; HEAT CONVECTION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; NATURAL CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATIFORM CLOUD; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING;

EID: 84856948197     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4167.1     Document Type: Article

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