Why does tropical convective available potential energy (CAPE) increase with warming?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 10429-10437

  Seeley, Jacob T ^a,b   Romps, David M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

buoyancy; global warming; tropical convection

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUOYANCY; GLOBAL WARMING; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

CLOUD RESOLVING SIMULATIONS; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; SATURATION DEFICIT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL CONVECTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BUOYANCY; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; POTENTIAL ENERGY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84953449543     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066199     Document Type: Article

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