Radiative driving of shallow return flows from the ITCZ

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 831-842

  Nishant, N ^a   Sherwood, S C ^a   Geoffroy, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

radiative driving; shallow clouds; shallow overturning circulation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; PARAMETERIZATION; SUBSIDENCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MODEL PARAMETERIZATION; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; RADIATIVE DRIVING; SHALLOW CLOUDS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84971484602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015MS000606     Document Type: Article

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