Preconditioning deep convection with cumulus congestus

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 448-464

  Hohenegger, Cathy ^a   Stevens, Bjorn ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convection; Convective clouds; Large eddy simulations; Moisture moisture budget; Satellite observations; Storm environments

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CONVECTIVE INITIATION; MOISTURE CONVERGENCE; MOISTURE/MOISTURE BUDGETS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; STORM ENVIRONMENTS; TIME SCALE ANALYSIS;

CLOUDS; HEAT CONVECTION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; STATISTICS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CUMULUS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 84874955642     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-089.1     Document Type: Article

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