Self-aggregation of convection in long channel geometry

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 142, Issue 694, 2016, Pages 1-15

  Wing, Allison A ^a   Cronin, Timothy W ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Radiative convective equilibrium; Self aggregation; Tropical clouds

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; AGGREGATES; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FEEDBACK; GEOMETRY; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT RADIATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

HOMOGENEOUS BOUNDARY CONDITION; LOW SURFACE TEMPERATURE; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SELF AGGREGATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) CHANNELS; TROPICAL CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CHANNEL; CLOUD COVER; GEOMETRY; RADIATIVE FORCING; RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

EID: 84957801196     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2628     Document Type: Article

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