Where is the level of neutral buoyancy for deep convection?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Takahashi, Hanii ^a   Luo, Zhengzhao ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CLOUDS;

CLOUDSAT; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CONVECTIVE TRANSPORT; CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION; DEEP CONVECTION; ENTRAINMENT RATES; LIMITED INFORMATION; NEUTRAL BUOYANCY; UPPER BOUND;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BUOYANCY; CLOUDSAT; CORRELATION; CUMULUS; ENTRAINMENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OUTFLOW; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 84865438411     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052638     Document Type: Article

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