Physical mechanisms controlling the initiation of convective self-aggregation in a General Circulation Model

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2060-2078

  Coppin, David ^a   Bony, Sandrine ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

cloud circulation coupling; convection; low cloud feedback; Radiative Convective Equilibrium; self aggregation; WISHE feedback

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT CONVECTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CLOUD FEEDBACKS; CLOUD RADIATIVE EFFECTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERMEDIATE TEMPERATURES; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SELF AGGREGATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

AGGLOMERATION;

AGGREGATION; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84959576864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015MS000571     Document Type: Article

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