Beyond bulk entrainment and detrainment rates: A new framework for diagnosing mixing in cumulus convection

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Nie, Ji ^a   Kuang, Zhiming ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; MIXING;

CUMULUS CONVECTION; FLUX DISTRIBUTIONS; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE DISPERSION MODEL; MAPPING PROCESS; PLUME MODEL; TEMPERATURE PERTURBATIONS;

CLOUDS;

CUMULUS; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENTRAINMENT; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MIXING; OCEANIC CONVECTION; PLUME;

EID: 84868628405     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053992     Document Type: Article

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