Toward an understanding of vertical momentum transports in cloud-system-resolving model simulations of multiscale tropical convection

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3231-3247

  Shaw, Tiffany A ^a   Lane, Todd P ^b  

^a Columbia University New York ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVE MOMENTUM; MECHANICAL OSCILLATORS; MODEL SIMULATION; MOMENTUM TRANSPORTS; NON-CONSERVATIVE EFFECTS; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; TROPICAL CONVECTION; VERTICAL SENSIBLE HEAT FLUXES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; GRAVITY WAVES; HEAT FLUX; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; OSCILLISTORS; TROPOSPHERE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; GRAVITY WAVE; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84885943760     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-068.1     Document Type: Article

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