Mass-flux characteristics of tropical cumulus clouds from wind profiler observations at Darwin, Australia

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1837-1855

  Kumar, Vickal V ^a   Jakob, Christian ^a   Protat, Alain ^b   Williams, Christopher R ^c   May, Peter T ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective clouds; Cumulus clouds; Mass fluxes transport

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; WIND;

CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CUMULUS CLOUD; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; LARGE SCALE CONDITIONS; MASS FLUXES/TRANSPORT; WEATHER AND CLIMATE MODELS;

VELOCITY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CUMULUS; MASS TRANSPORT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

AUSTRALIA; DARWIN; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 84943805402     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-14-0259.1     Document Type: Article

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