Stochastic behavior of tropical convection in observations and a multicloud model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3556-3575

  Peters, Karsten ^a   Jakob, Christian ^a   Davies, Laura ^a   Khouider, Boualem ^b   Majda, Andrew J ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Convective parameterization; Radars Radar observations; Stochastic models; Tropics; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

CAUSE-AND-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS; CONVECTION PARAMETERIZATION; CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION; DETERMINISTIC BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCY; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS;

HEAT CONVECTION; PARAMETERIZATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; TROPICS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ENERGETICS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; STOCHASTICITY; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 84888063181     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-031.1     Document Type: Article

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