Cloud-resolving large-eddy simulation of tropical convective development and surface fluxes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2441-2458

  Skyllingstad, Eric D ^a   de Szoeke, Simon P ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Cold pools; Convection lines; Convective clouds; Madden Julian oscillation; Radiative convective equilibrium

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPORATION; FEEDBACK; HEAT CONVECTION; LAKES; MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; COLD POOL; CONVECTION LINES; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; COLD POOL; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MIXED LAYER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 84943388786     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00247.1     Document Type: Article

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