Departures from convective equilibrium with a rapidly varying surface forcing

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 676, 2013, Pages 1731-1746

  Davies, L ^a   Plant, R S ^a   Derbyshire, S H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving modelling; Convective quasi equilibrium; Rapid forcing

Indexed keywords

CLOUD SYSTEM-RESOLVING MODELS; CLOUD-RESOLVING; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUMS; DEEP MOIST CONVECTION; QUASI-EQUILIBRIUM; RAPID FORCING; THERMODYNAMIC FIELDS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84886292663     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2065     Document Type: Article

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