Observational evidence for relationships between the degree of aggregation of deep convection, water vapor, surface fluxes, and radiation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 6885-6904

  Tobin, Isabelle ^a   Bony, Sandrine ^a   Roca, Remy ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Deep convection

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; DATA SETS; DEEP CONVECTION; DEGREE OF AGGREGATION; LARGE-SCALE DYNAMICS; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIATIVE HEATING; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SPATIAL ORGANIZATION; SURFACE FLUX; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL OCEAN; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WATER AND ENERGIES;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; NATURAL CONVECTION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD COVER; HUMIDITY; LONGWAVE RADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SURFACE FLUX; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENT FLOW; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84867686898     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00258.1     Document Type: Article

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