The MJO Transition from shallow to deep convection in cloudsat/CALIPSO data and GISS GCM simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3755-3770

  Del Genio, Anthony D ^a   Chen, Yonghua ^b   Kim, Daehyun ^c   Yao, Mao Sung ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Convective clouds; Convective parameterization; Entrainment; Madden Julian oscillation; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; CALIPSO; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; CLOUD STRUCTURE; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; CLOUDSAT; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DEEP CONVECTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; LAPSE RATE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOISTURE PRECONDITIONING; PARAMETERIZATIONS; SHALLOW CONVECTION; TRANSITION PHASE; TROPOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

AIR ENTRAINMENT; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; OPTICAL RADAR; VAPORS; WATER VAPOR; WIND;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

AEROSOL; AMSR-E; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CALIPSO; CIRRUS; CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; CLOUDSAT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMIDITY; LIDAR; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84862732224     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00384.1     Document Type: Article

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