Wind shear and buoyancy reversal at the top of stratocumulus

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1040-1057

  Mellado, Juan Pedro ^a   Stevens, Bjorn ^a   Schmidt, Heiko ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD-TOP ENTRAINMENT INSTABILITIES; CONVECTIVE MOTIONS; ENTRAINMENT VELOCITIES; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SHEAR-INDUCED MIXING; TURBULENCE LAYERS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

BUOYANCY; CLOUDS; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; TURBULENCE MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW;

SHEAR FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYER; BUOYANCY FORCING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ENTRAINMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; STRATOCUMULUS; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 84896760563     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0189.1     Document Type: Article

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