On the atmospheric regulation of the growth of moderate to deep cumulonimbus in a tropical environment

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1105-1120

  Kumar, Vickal V ^a   Protat, Alain ^b   Jakob, Christian ^a   May, Peter T ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; CUMULUS CLOUD; DEEP CONVECTION; INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT; MIDTROPOSPHERE; MOISTURE BUDGET; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENTS;

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; NATURAL CONVECTION;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CUMULUS; DATABASE; MOISTURE CONTENT; RADIOSONDE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE;

AUSTRALIA; DARWIN; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 84896741287     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0231.1     Document Type: Article

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