Diurnal equilibrium convection and land surface-atmosphere interactions in an idealized cloud-resolving model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 667, 2012, Pages 1526-1539

  Schlemmer, Linda ^a   Hohenegger, Cathy ^b   Schmidli, Juerg ^a   Schär, Christoph ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving modelling; Convection; Land surface atmosphere interactions

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; AVAILABLE ENERGY; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CLOUD-RESOLVING; DEEP CONVECTION; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; NEAR-SURFACE; PARAMETRIZATIONS; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PRIMARY CONTROL; SATURATION DEFICIT; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; WET SOIL;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FEEDBACK; HEAT CONVECTION; RADIATION EFFECTS;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD COVER; DIURNAL VARIATION; EVAPORATION; LAND SURFACE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; MOISTURE CONTENT; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84866177480     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1892     Document Type: Article

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