Steady-state large-eddy simulations to study the stratocumulus to shallow cumulus cloud transition

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3264-3276

  Chung, D ^a,b   Matheou, G ^a   Teixeira, J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clouds; Large eddy simulations; Marine boundary layer

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; CLOUD FRACTION; CONDITIONAL AVERAGE; EULERIAN; FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; GAUSSIAN PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LAGRANGIAN; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS; NET EFFECT; RADIATIVE COOLING; REGIME TRANSITION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SHALLOW CUMULUS CLOUDS; STEP CHANGES; THERMODYNAMIC ENERGY; TIME LAG; TIME-LAG EFFECT;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CLOUDS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; ENERGY BUDGET; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; LINEARITY; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; STRATOCUMULUS; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84871980528     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0256.1     Document Type: Article

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