Increases in moist-convective updraught velocities with warming in radiative-convective equilibrium

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 692, 2015, Pages 2828-2838

  Singh, Martin S ^a   O'Gorman, Paul A ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cloud system resolving model; Deep convection; Moist convection; Radiative convective equilibrium; Updraught velocities

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

CLOUD SYSTEM-RESOLVING MODELS; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; DEEP CONVECTION; MOIST CONVECTION; PLUME MODEL; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

VELOCITY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPDRAFT;

EID: 84946481565     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2567     Document Type: Article

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