A probabilistic bulk model of coupled mixed layer and convection. Part II: Shallow convection case

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1557-1576

  Gentine, Pierre ^a   Betts, Alan K ^b   Lintner, Benjamin R ^c   Findell, Kirsten L ^d   Van Heerwaarden, Chiel C ^e   D'Andrea, Fabio ^f  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Atmospheric Research   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^f LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; BARBADOS OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS; CONVECTIVE INHIBITION; ENTRAINMENT VELOCITIES; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE THERMODYNAMICS; THERMODYNAMIC STRUCTURES;

CLOUDS; EQUIPMENT TESTING; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; ENTRAINMENT; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84876080175     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0146.1     Document Type: Article

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