Convective momentum transport in a simple multicloud model for organized convection

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 281-302

  Khouider, Boualem ^a   Han, Ying ^a   Biello, Joseph A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective parameterization; Cumulus clouds; General circulation models; Madden Julian oscillation; Radiative convective equilibrium; Tropics

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE HEATING; COUPLED WAVES; CUMULUS CLOUD; CUMULUS CONVECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; GAUSSIAN PROFILES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; KEY PARAMETERS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE CIRCULATION; MOMENTUM TRANSPORTS; NEW STRATEGY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARAMETER REGIMES; PARAMETERIZED; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; RELATIVE STRENGTH; SENSITIVITY SIMULATION; SUB-GRIDS; SUBGRID SCALE; SUPERCLUSTERS; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS; WAVE ENVELOPE; WEAK TEMPERATURE GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SHEAR FLOW; TOOLS; TROPICS;

PARAMETERIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CUMULUS; GRAVITY WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; PARAMETERIZATION; PLANETARY WAVE; SQUALL LINE; STRATIFORM CLOUD; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 84863393334     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-042.1     Document Type: Article

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