Stratocumulus clouds

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2373-2423

  Wood, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatology; Cloud cover; Cloud droplets; Cloud microphysics; Cloud water phase; Clouds

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL CONCENTRATION; AEROSOL PARTICLES; ANNUAL MEAN; ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTION; CLOUD ALBEDO; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD COVERAGE; CLOUD DROPLETS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD TYPES; CLOUD WATER; CONTROLLING PROCESS; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; EARTH'S SURFACE; ENTRAINMENT PROCESS; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; FIELD STUDIES; FUTURE CLIMATE; MARINE STRATOCUMULUS; MESOSCALE VARIABILITY; MIDLATITUDE OCEAN; ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; PRECIPITATION FORMATION; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE COOLING; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SMALL SCALE; STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; STRATOCUMULUS-TOPPED BOUNDARY LAYERS; SURFACE MOISTURES; THERMAL INFRARED RADIATIONS; TIME-SCALES; TURBULENT EDDY; TURBULENT MIXING;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; COALESCENCE; DROPS; DYNAMICS; EVAPORATION; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; INFRARED RADIATION; MOISTURE; PROCESS CONTROL; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD WATER; DRIZZLE; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPORATION; SOLAR RADIATION; STRATOCUMULUS; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT MIXING;

EID: 84867674414     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00121.1     Document Type: Review

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