Thermodynamic and aerosol controls in southeast Pacific stratocumulus

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1250-1266

  Mechem, David B ^a   Yuter, Sandra E ^b   De Szoeke, Simon P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Boundary layer; Clouds; Drizzle; Large eddy simulations; Mesoscale processes

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL CONCENTRATION; AEROSOL PARAMETERS; BOTTOM-UP FASHION; BOUNDARY LAYER DEPTH; BOUNDARY LAYER HEIGHTS; CELLULAR STRUCTURE; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI; CLOUD LAYERS; CLOUD SYSTEMS; DRIZZLE; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; MESOSCALE PROCESS; MICROPHYSICS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; RELATIVE SENSITIVITY; SCANNING RADAR; SIMULATION APPROACH; STATISTICAL BEHAVIOR; TURBULENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; EXPERIMENTS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; REFLECTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHIPS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AEROSOL; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DRIZZLE; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MESOSCALE MOTION; RADAR; STRATOCUMULUS; THERMODYNAMICS; TURBULENCE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 84861463874     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0165.1     Document Type: Article

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