Responses of tropical deep convection to the QBO: Cloud-resolving simulations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3625-3638

  Nie, Ji ^a   Sobel, Adam H ^a  

^a Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving models; Clouds; Deep convection; Quasibiennial oscillation; Vertical motion

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUDGET CONTROL; CLOUDS; HURRICANE EFFECTS; NATURAL CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE; TROPICS;

CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CLOUD RESOLVING SIMULATIONS; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; DEEP CONVECTION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); VERTICAL MOTIONS; WEAK TEMPERATURE GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84945157073     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-15-0035.1     Document Type: Article

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